It is its sound unpoisoned with alarm,

Its whisper like the whisper of the sea.

Shouting nor silence, neither enters here—

Only the melody of far-off things.

A drifting cloud makes skies more fair appear,

The wood is stiller for the whir of wings.

RAIN

Rainin’, is it? So it is—

An’ I knew it would.

When a man has rheumatiz