An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature/It Rained the Livelong Day...
VIKTOR DYK
(b. 1877)
It Rained the Livelong Day . . .
And there was much, was much the raindrops had to tell.
The soft and soothing cadence of their speech we heard,
Wherein death was but sleep and danger but a word.
Till by the peaceful murmur soothed and lulled to rest,
We told ourselves that none against us had transgressed.
We told ourselves that concord can arise from wrong,
That he can reach his goal who gropes through darkness long.
We told ourselves the sun would greet the coming day.
And then the rain was stilled. The last drop ebbed away.
Already night had come, and as a long refrain
We heard amid our dreams speech of that goodly rain.
The Window (1921)
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1931. The longest-living author of this work died in 1970, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 55 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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