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<h2>A RAIN SONG</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> Tinkle, tinkle, Lightly fall On the peach buds, pink and small; Tip the tiny grass, and twinkle On the clover, green and tall. </div> <div class="stanza"> Tinkle, tinkle,— Faster now, Little rain-drops, smite and sprinkle Cherry-bloom and apple-bough! Pelt the elms, and show them how You can dash! And splash! splash! splash! While the thunder rolls and mutters, And the lightnings flash and flash! [34]Then eddy into curls Of a million misty swirls, And thread the air with silver, and embroider it with pearls! </div> <div class="stanza"> And patter, patter, patter To a quicker time, and clatter On the streaming window-pane; Rain, rain, On the leaves, And the eaves, And the turning weather-vane! </div> <div class="stanza"> Rush in torrents from the tip Of the gable-peak, and drip In the garden-bed, and fill All the cuckoo-cups, and pour More and more [35]In the tulip-bowls, and still Overspill In a crystal tide until Every yellow daffodil Is flooded to its golden rim, and brimming o'er and o'er! </div> <div class="stanza"> Then as gently as the low Muffled whir of robin wings, Or a sweep of silver strings, Even so, Take your airy April flight Through the merry April light, And melt into a mist of rainy music as you go! </div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> [36] <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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