Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished/The rain is over and done
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THE RAIN IS OVER AND DONE
(1876?)
The handwriting and context of these verses point to the winter of 1876, and the poem is emphatically in consonance with the moods of those months when Stevenson's outlook on life was darkest. The poem indicates that his despondency was partly due to the recognition of the lessening of his love for the Edinburgh girl who had aroused the great passion of his early manhood.
THE RAIN IS OVER AND DONE
The rain is over and done;
I am aweary, dear, of love;
I look below and look above,
On russet maiden, rustling dame,
And love's so slow and time so long,
And hearts and eyes so blindly wrong,
I am half weary of my love,
And pray that life were done.