• Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain, — A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top A warlike trumpet blew.

  Bret Harte
  American short story writer and poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. chimney-top
2. fusillade
3. keyhole
4. warlike
5. trumpet

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Last night, above the whistling wind, I heard the welcome rain, — A fusillade upon the roof, A tattoo on the pane: The keyhole piped; the chimney-top A warlike trumpet blew. by : Bret Harte

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