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From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2011

—The tall Sun, tiptoe on an Alpine spire, Flings o'er the desert blood-red streams of fire.

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by Knight, William

Always shall I be teased with semblances, With cruel impostures, which I trust awhile Then dash to pieces, as a careless boy Flings a kaleidoscope, which shattering Strews all the ground about with coloured sherds.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy

Her pity in a flood Flings down the gate.

From The New World by Bynner, Witter

Proud Missisippi, tamed and taught his road, Flings forth irriguous from his generous flood Ten thousand watery glades; that, round him curl'd, Vein the broad bosom of the western world.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel