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I. The rain! the rain! the rain! It gushed from the skies and streamed Like awful tears; and the sick man thought How pitiful it seemed! And he turned his face away, And stared at the wall again, His hopes nigh dead and his heart worn out. O the rain! the rain! the rain!

II. The rain! the rain! the rain! And the broad stream brimmed the shores; And ever the river crept over the reeds And the roots of the sycamores: A corpse swirled by in a drift Where the boat had snapt its chain And a hoarse-voiced mother shrieked and raved. O the rain! the rain! the rain!

III. The rain! the rain! the rain! Pouring, with never a pause, Over the fields and the green byways How beautiful it was! And the new-made man and wife Stood at the window-pane Like two glad children kept from school. www.public-domain-poetry.com/james-whitcomb-riley/printpoem/rain-29598 1/2

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