Classic Poem

1

The rain is come in misty showers
The landscape lies in shrouds
Patches of sunshine like to flowers
Fall down between the clouds
And gild the earth else where so cold
With shreds like flowers of purest gold

2

And now it sweeps along the hills
Just like a falling cloud
The cornfields into silence stills
Where musty moisture shrouds
And now a darker cloud sweeps o'er
The rain drops faster than before

3

The cattle graze along the ground
The lark she wets her wings
And chatters as she whirls around
Then to the wet corn sings
And hides upon her twitchey nest
Refreshed with wet & speckled breast

4

And I the calm delight embrace
To walk along the fields
And feel the rain drops in my face
That sweetest pleasure yeilds
They come from heaven and there the free
Sends down his blessings upon me

5

I love to walk in summer showers
When the rain falls gently down
I love to walk a lecture hours
A distance from the Town
To see the drops on bushes hing
And Blackbirds prune a dabbled wing