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In
Divers Tones
by
Charles G.D. Roberts
Edited
by Tracy Ware
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RAIN
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Sharp
drives the rain, sharp drives the endless rain.
The rain-winds wake and wander,
lift and blow.
The slow smoke-wreaths of vapor
to and fro
Wave, and unweave, and gather and build again.
Over the far gray reaches of the plain,—
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Gray
miles on miles my passionate thought must go,—
I strain my sight, grown dim with
gazing so,
Pressing my face against the streaming pane.
How the rain beats! Ah God, if love had power
To voice its utmost yearning,
even tho’
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Thro’
time and bitter distance, not in vain,
Surely Her heart would hear me at this hour,
Look thro’ the years, and
see! But would She know
The white face
pressed against the streaming pane?
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