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RAIN
KEEP your calm days with azure skies
And shadows playing hide-and-seek
From dawn to dusk, and gold-of-Ophir sun
Crowning the far-off mountain peak
  Keep these for yours—
   Give me the rain!

Give me the days gray like the cowl
That hides a monk's pale, musing face.
No glint of blue or east or west,
No break within the somber space,
  But blur instead
   Of blown, white rain.

For in the sun I am apart
Of life with all its heave and beat,
Its two-fold purpose—love and hate—
Its destiny so swift and sweet;
  But in the rain
   I am alone.

Alone, to hear the far, clear call
Wind-whispered from the voiceless past,
Alone with my own hidden self
To build new dreams and hold them fast—
  To sing my heart
   Out with the rain.

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