Along wet roads, all shining with late rain,

And through wet woods, all dripping, brown and sere,

I came one day towards the church again.

It was the spring-time of the day and year;

The sky was light and bright and flecked with cloud

That, wind-swept, changeful, through bright rents allowed

Sun and blue sky to smile and disappear.

The sky behind the old gray church was gray—

Gray as my memories, and gray as I;

The forlorn graves each side the grassy way