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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357398" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Song of Rain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because a little vagrant wind veered south from China Sea;<br>Or else, because a sun-spot stirred; and yet again, maybe<br>Because some idle god in play breathed on an errant cloud,<br>The heads of twice two million folk in gratitude are bowed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Patter, patter… Boolconmatta,<br>Adelaide and Oodnadatta,<br>Pepegoona, parched and dry<br>Laugh beneath a dripping sky.<br>Riverina's thirsting plain<br>Knows the benison of rain.<br>Ararat and Arkaroola<br>Render thanks with Tantanoola<br>For the blessings they are gaining,<br>And it's raining - raining - raining!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because a heaven-sent monsoon the mists before it drove;<br>Because things happened in the moon; or else, because High Jove,<br>Unbending, played at waterman to please a laughing boy,<br>The hearts through all a continent are raised in grateful joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weeps the sky at Wipipee<br>Far Farina's folk are dippy<br>With sheer joy, while Ballarat<br>Shouts and flings aloft its hat.<br>Thirsty Thackaringa yells;<br>Taltabooka gladly tells<br>Of a season wet and windy;<br>Men rejoice on Murrindindie;<br>Kalioota's ceased complaining;<br>For it's raining - raining - raining!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because a poor bush parson prayed an altruistic prayer,<br>Rich with unselfish fellow-love that Heaven counted rare;<br>And yet, mayhap, because one night a meteor was hurled<br>Across the everlasting blue, the luck was with our world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the wilds of Winininnie<br>Cattle low and horses whinny,<br>Frolicking with sheer delight.<br>From Beltana to The Bight,<br>In the Mallee's sun-scorched towns,<br>In the sheds on Darling Downs,<br>In the huts at Yudnapinna,<br>Tents on Tidnacoordininna,<br>To the sky all heads are craning <br>For it's raining - raining - raining!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because some strange, cyclonic thing has happened - God knows where <br>Men dream again of easy days, of cash to spend and spare.<br>The ring fair Clara coveted, Belinda's furs are nigh,<br>As clerklings watch their increments fall shining from the sky.<br>Rolls the thunder at Eudunda;<br>Leongatha, Boort, Kapunda<br>Send a joyous message down;<br>Sorrows, flooded, sink and drown.<br>Ninkerloo and Nerim South<br>Hail the breaking of the drouth;<br>From Toolangi's wooded mountains<br>Sounds the song of plashing fountains;<br>Sovereign Summer's might is waning;<br>It is raining - raining - raining!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because the breeze blew sou'-by-east across the China Sea;<br>Or else, because the thing was willed through all eternity<br>By gods that rule the rushing stars, or gods long aeons dead,<br>The earth is made to smile again, and living things are fed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Mile on mile from Mallacoota<br> Runs the news, and far Baroota<br> Speeds it over hill and plain,<br> Till the slogan of the rain<br>Rolls afar to Yankalilla;<br>Wallaroo and Wirrawilla<br>Shout it o'er the leagues between,<br>Telling of the dawning green.<br>Frogs at Cocoroc are croaking,<br>Booboorowie soil is soaking,<br>Oodla Wirra, Orroroo<br>Breathe relief and hope anew.<br>Wycheproof and Wollongong<br>Catch the burden of the song<br>That is rolling, rolling ever<br> O'er the plains of Never Never,<br> Sounding in each mountain rill,<br> Echoing from hill to hill…<br> In the lonely, silent places<br> Men lift up their glad, wet faces,<br> And their thanks ask no explaining <br> It is raining - raining - raining!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Or else, because a sun-spot stirred; and yet again, maybe
Because some idle god in play breathed on an errant cloud,
The heads of twice two million folk in gratitude are bowed.

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