<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</SPAN></span></p>
<h3><SPAN name="XVIII" id="XVIII"></SPAN>XVIII</h3>
<h3><i>After Rain</i></h3>
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<span class="i0">The country road at lonely close of day<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Rests for a while from the long stress of rain;<br/></span>
<span class="i2">Dripping and bowed, the green walls of the lane<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Reflect no glistening light, no colors gay<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Has dying Summer left. The sky is gray,<br/></span>
<span class="i2">As though the weeping had not eased the pain.<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The Autumn is not yet, and all in vain<br/></span>
<span class="i0">Seems Summer’s life—a blossom cast away.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i0">The air is hushed, save in the emerald shade<br/></span>
<span class="i2">The rain still drips and stirs each fretting leaf<br/></span>
<span class="i2">To soft insistence of its little grief.<br/></span>
<span class="i4">The hopeless calm all thought of life denies—<br/></span>
<span class="i0">But hark! out through the silence, unafraid,<br/></span>
<span class="i4">A robin ripples to the chilly skies.<br/></span></div>
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