Wet Day

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="WET_DAY" id="WET_DAY"></SPAN>A WET DAY</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Dark, drear, and drizzly, with vapor grizzly,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The day goes dully unto its close;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its wet robe smutches each thing it touches,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its fingers sully and wreck the rose.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Around the railing and garden-paling<br/></span> <span class="i0">The dripping lily hangs low its head:<br/></span> <span class="i0">A brood-mare whinnies; and hens and guineas<br/></span> <span class="i0">Droop, damp and chilly, beneath the shed.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">In splashing mire about the byre<br/></span> <span class="i0">The cattle huddle, the farm-hand plods;<br/></span> <span class="i0">While to some neighbor’s a wagon labors<br/></span> <span class="i0">Through pool and puddle and clay that clods.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_444" id="page_444">{444}</SPAN></span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The day, unsplendid, at last is ended,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Is dead and buried, and night has come;&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Night, blind and footless, and foul and fruitless,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With weeping wearied, and sorrow-dumb.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Ah, God! for thunder! for winds to sunder<br/></span> <span class="i0">The clouds and o’er us smite rushing bars!<br/></span> <span class="i0">And through wild masses of storm, that passes,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Roll calm the chorus of moon and stars.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_445" id="page_445">{445}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />