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The Voice of The Rain

                                                                - by.   Walt Whitman 


And who are thou? Said I to soft-falling 
shower, 
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer,  as here translated:
I am the poem 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 
from 'd,  altogether changed, and yet the same, I descend to lave the droughts, 
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
fulfilment, wandering 
Rock' d or unreck 'd,  duly with love returns.) 







                                                                                         

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