Sentence:  How still ! how very still it is, So silent it appears, E'en from its intensity, To tingle in mine ears. I hear the sheep-bell far away In the calm breathless night; The corncrake begins to <WSD>crake</WSD> . Crake, crake, with all its might. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.