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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365973" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rain that Came to Stay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘How much longer this drought, ' he said, <br>‘The creeks are running dry, <br>There's not a lot in the reservoir<br>And not a cloud in the sky, <br>The farmers, shooting the cattle that<br>Have nothing out there to drink, <br>How much longer this drought, ' he cried<br>In the pub at Innaminck! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The soil had turned to a fine bulldust, <br>The drought had cracked the clay, <br>There wasn't a green shoot anywhere<br>To be seen by the light of day, <br>The crops had failed, were ploughed back in<br>In hopes that the rain would come, <br>But the skies were clear for the rest of the year<br>From there to Jerusalem! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A tinker called in a beat-up car<br>And staggered in with his bag, <br>‘I'm Mickey Malone from County Down<br>With a thirst that could choke a shag! '<br>The barman served him a schooner, with<br>One gulp, he put it away, <br>But emptied his empty pockets when<br>The barman asked him to pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tinker started his blarney then, <br>‘I'll sharpen your knives for free! <br>Just give me another schooner, chum<br>And we'll see what we will see! <br>I'll cut your keys, and I'll wash a dish, <br>Or I'll give you a hundred pegs.'<br>The barman reached and he grabbed his throat, <br>And lifted him off his legs! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You'll have to do better than that, my man, <br>Don't drink my beer for free! <br>I'm taking the wheels of your beat-up car<br>‘Til you play it straight with me! '<br>‘Hang on, hang on, just what do you want, <br>Whatever will pay my due! '<br>‘We could do with a shower of rain, my man, <br>But that's all I'd want from you! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tinker nodded, ‘No sooner said! <br>I'll make it tomorrow noon, <br>You'll have to give me a room to rent<br>And I'll whip it up in the gloom.'<br>The barman sneered, ‘You're having me on, <br>No way can you make it rain! '<br>‘You'll see, tomorrow, ' the tinker said, <br>‘Though you might think I'm insane! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The barman locked him and his bag in a room, <br>And took a wheel off his car, <br>He knew if the tinker tried to escape<br>He wouldn't be going far, <br>But come the dawn, was a distant cloud<br>Spread out, and up from the south, <br>It tumbled and turned in the atmosphere<br>And looked like a dragon's mouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At noon the cloud was over their heads, <br>All black, and threatening rain, <br>A whirly blew up a dust storm there<br>And swirled at each window pane, <br>They locked the door of the pub up tight<br>And waited, tense as a rag, <br>The rain came down, ‘Aha, ' he said, <br>And the tinker patted his bag! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The patter of rain was heard on the roof, <br>The gutters began to fill, <br>The windows washed of their dust and silt<br>Right down to the window-sill, <br>The dust was settled, the ground was wet, <br>The cattle lowed in the field, <br>And everyone danced in the yard out there<br>The tide of their fortunes sealed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rain grew heavier by the hour, <br>The creeks had started to flow, <br>And even the reservoir burst its banks, <br>With nowhere else to go, <br>The water flooded across the plain<br>They waded up to their knees, <br>‘Enough, enough! ' But Malone replied: <br>‘Begorra, you're hard to please! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It rained all night, and the following day, <br>It rained and rained for a week, <br>The pub was flooded from wall to wall<br>The water burst from the creek, <br>‘You've got to stop it, ' the barman cried, <br>But the tinker stood and frowned, <br>‘If the water rises much higher than this, <br>I think that we'll all be drowned! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘You said you wanted the rain, all right, <br>I gave it, now for my pay, <br>I can't go on in these tattered clothes<br>And my car's a give-away.<br>I'll need the van that you've parked out front<br>And a hundred cans of beer, <br>Not much to ask for your water, chum, <br>At the drought time of the year! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The barman collared and kicked him out<br>With his bag and all beside, <br>The tinker lay in the water there, <br>His bag had sunk in the tide, <br>‘Will you stop it now, ' the barman said, <br>‘Or you'll wish you'd never been born! '<br>I can't! ' The tinker sat and he cried, <br>‘You've drowned my Leprechaun! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It rains and rains at Innaminck, <br>It rains both day and night, <br>The pub sank under the water there<br>In a lake that's ten miles wide, <br>The farmers had to desert the land<br>To leave their sunken homes, <br>But put out a ‘Wanted', Nation wide<br>For a tinker, called Malone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">David Lewis Paget</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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‘The creeks are running dry, 
There's not a lot in the reservoir
And not a cloud in the sky, 
The farmers, shooting the cattle that
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