Drenched boughs to a pattering show'r

Athwart the red dusk in a glow'r,

Big drops heard hard on each flow'r

On the grass and the flowering moss.

VII.

And then for a minute, may be,—

A pearl—hollow worn—of the sea,—

A glimmer of moon will smile;

Cool stars rinsed clean on the dusk,

A freshness of gathering musk