Prelude

Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in harmony With the wild, restless tone of air and sky Shall we not call im Prospero who held In his enchanted hands the fateful key Of that tempestuous hour's mystery And with controlling wand our spirits spelled With him to wander by a sun-bright shore To hear fine, fairy voices, and to fly With disembodied Ariel once more Above earth's wrack and ruin? Far and nigh The laughter of the thunder echoed loud And harmless lightnings leapt from cloud to cloud