From rains of yesterday.

Blue? Blue above of Californian sky,

Which has no peer on earth for its pure flame;

Bright blue of bay and strait spread wide below,

And, past the low, dull hills that hem it so,—

Blue as the sky, blue as the placid bay,—

Blue mountains far away.

Thanks this year for the early rains that came

To bless us, meaning Summer by and by.

This is our Spring-in-Autumn, making one