<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391636" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rainbow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Genesis ix. 13. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>SOFT falls the mild, reviving shower<br>From April's changeful skies,<br>And rain-drops bend each trembling flower<br>They tinge with richer dyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon shall their genial influence call <br>A thousand buds to day, <br>Which, waiting but their balmy fall, <br>In hidden beauty lay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">E'en now full many a blossom's bell<br>With fragrance fills the shade; <br>And verdure clothes each grassy dell, <br>In brighter tints arrayed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But mark! what arch of varied hue<br>From heaven to earth is bowed? <br>Haste, ere it vanish, haste to view<br>The Rainbow in the cloud. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How bright its glory! there behold<br>The emerald's verdant rays, <br>The topaz blends its hue of gold<br>With the deep ruby's blaze. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet not alone to charm thy sight<br>Was given the vision fair;?<br>Gaze on that arch of colored light,<br>And read God's mercy there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It tells us that the mighty deep,<br>Fast by th' Eternal chained,<br>No more o'er earth's domains shall sweep,<br>Awful and unrestrained. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It tells that seasons, heat and cold,<br>Fixed by his sovereign will, <br>Shall, in their course, bid man behold<br>Seed-time and harvest still; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That still the flower shall deck the field,<br>When vernal zephyrs blow; <br>That still the vine its fruit will yield, <br>When autumn sun-beams glow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, child of that fair earth! which yet<br>Smiles with each charm endowed, <br>Bless thou His name, whose mercy set<br>The Rainbow in the cloud!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Felicia+Dorothea+Hemans">Felicia Dorothea Hemans</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=391636" data-title="The Rainbow de Felicia Dorothea Hemans" data-description="I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Genesis ix. 13. SOFT falls the mild, reviving shower From April's changeful skies, And rain-drops bend each trembling flower They tinge with ric..."></div> </div> </div>

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