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“E’en as the prairie-fire enkindled on sun-parchèd steppe (as winn’oweth upper air sibilant Boreas), by the blasts swift blown o’er bush and arid brake rains flame and flare: The shepherd lads and lasses, idly strown in rest and gentle slumber, waked by blare of crackling conflagration blazing higher, hamlet-wards force their flocks to fly the fire: