Then the sullen sky, whose frowning
Chilled our hearts for weeks before,
Sudden smiles—and lo, above us,
Heaven’s bending blue once more!
Then the sunshine softly falleth,
Flooding earth with golden rays,
And the bleak fields stand transfigured
Through the brief, bright, “halcyon days;”
While the storm-scourged, wrathful billows,
Surging home with angry roar,