Rain

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="RAIN" id="RAIN"></SPAN>RAIN</h3> <h4>I</h4> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Around, the stillness deepened; then the grain<br/></span> <span class="i0">Went wild with wind; and every briery lane<br/></span> <span class="i0">Was swept with dust; and then, tempestuous black,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Hillward the tempest heaved a monster back,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That on the thunder leaned as on a cane;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And on huge shoulders bore a cloudy pack,<br/></span> <span class="i0">That gullied gold from many a lightning crack:<br/></span> <span class="i0">One great drop splashed and wrinkled down the pane,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And then field, hill, and wood were lost in rain.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <h4>II</h4> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">At last, through clouds,&mdash;as from a cavern hewn<br/></span> <span class="i0">Into night’s heart,&mdash;the sun burst, angry roon;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And every cedar, with its weight of wet,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Against the sunset’s fiery splendor set,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Startled to beauty, seemed with rubies strewn:<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then in drenched gardens, like sweet phantoms met,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dim odors rose of pink and mignonette;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And in the east a confidence, that soon<br/></span> <span class="i0">Grew to the calm assurance of the moon.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />