<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sudden Shower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barefooted boys scud up the street<br>Or skurry under sheltering sheds;<br>And schoolgirl faces, pale and sweet,<br>Gleam from the shawls about their heads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doors bang; and mother-voices call<br>From alien homes; and rusty gates<br>Are slammed; and high above it all,<br>The thunder grim reverberates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, abrupt,--the rain! the rain!--<br>The earth lies gasping; and the eyes<br>Behind the streaming window-pane<br>Smile at the trouble of the skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The highway smokes; sharp echoes ring;<br>The cattle bawl and cowbells clank;<br>And into town comes galloping<br>The farmer's horse, with streaming flank.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The swallow dips beneath the eaves,<br>And flirts his plumes and folds his wings;<br>And under the catawba leaves<br>The caterpillar curls and clings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bumble-bee is pelted down<br>The wet stem of the hollyhock;<br>And sullenly, in spattered brown,<br>The cricket leaps the garden walk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within, the baby claps his hands<br>And crows with rapture strange and vague;<br>Without, beneath the rosebush stands<br>A dripping rooster on one leg.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416535" data-title="A Sudden Shower de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Barefooted boys scud up the street Or skurry under sheltering sheds; And schoolgirl faces, pale and sweet, Gleam from the shawls about their heads. Doors bang; and mother-voices call From alien homes; and rusty gates Are slammed; and high above i..."></div> </div> </div>

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