BEFORE THE RAIN
by: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836-1906)
- E knew it
would rain, for all the morn
- A spirit on slender ropes of mist
- Was lowering its golden buckets down
- Into the vapory amethyst.
- Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens--
- Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers,
- Dipping the jewels out of the sea,
- To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
- We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
- The white of their leaves, the amber grain
- Shrunk in the wind--and the lightning now
- Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain!
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