THE VOICE OF THE RAIN
THE VOICE OF THE RAIN A ND who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poém of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same, I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn, And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it: (For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering, Recked or unrecked, duly with love returns.) Walt Whitman. Word Meaning:- thou – you soft-falling – dropping softly shower – raindrops when they fall continuously on Earth eternal – everlasting impa...