<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358549" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. <br>Let us discover some new alphabet, <br>For this, the often praised; and be ourselves, <br>The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf, <br>The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone, <br>And all that welcomes the rain; the sparrow too,—<br>Who watches with a hard eye from seclusion, <br>Beneath the elm-tree bough, till rain is done. <br>There is an oriole who, upside down, <br>Hangs at his nest, and flicks an orange wing,—<br>Under a tree as dead and still as lead; <br>There is a single leaf, in all this heaven <br>Of leaves, which rain has loosened from its twig: <br>The stem breaks, and it falls, but it is caught <br>Upon a sister leaf, and thus she hangs; <br>There is an acorn cup, beside a mushroom <br>Which catches three drops from the stooping cloud. <br>The timid bee goes back to the hive; the fly <br>Under the broad leaf of the hollyhock <br>Perpends stupid with cold; the raindark snail <br>Surveys the wet world from a watery stone... <br>And still the syllables of water whisper: <br>The wheel of cloud whirs slowly: while we wait <br>In the dark room; and in your heart I find <br>One silver raindrop,—on a hawthorn leaf,— <br>Orion in a cobweb, and the World.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Conrad+Potter+Aiken">Conrad Potter Aiken</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358549" data-title="Beloved, Let Us Once More Praise The Rain de Conrad Potter Aiken" data-description="Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and be ourselves, The rain, the chickweed, and the burdock leaf, The green-white privet flower, the spotted stone, And all that welcome..."></div> </div> </div>

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