<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529138" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before the Rain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">E knew it would rain, for all the morn <br>A spirit on slender ropes of mist <br>Was lowering its golden buckets down <br>Into the vapory amethyst. <br>Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens-- <br>Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, <br>Dipping the jewels out of the sea, <br>To sprinkle them over the land in showers. <br>We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed <br>The white of their leaves, the amber grain <br>Shrunk in the wind--and the lightning now <br>Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</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=529138" data-title="Before the Rain de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="E knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst. Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens-- Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out ..."></div> </div> </div>

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