Jain Ann Chacko Physical Science First year
The people assaulted and clustered Around the stack of books and scrolls. And as the soldiers came up with blazing torches A mass began to form And as the mob roared loudly The general on his horse peeped around And at his barked order the soldiers Threw their fiery torches down And as the pages caught on fire The books began to burn. So the pages turned to ashes They flew as black angels on fire And caught within the clouds They flied higher and higher And as the wind blew into the clouds They began to expand so softly So that the ashes spread over the world As the dark clouds began to weep. And so as the droplets pearled to earth The pages watered the trees
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