Rain
Quisr rain, and a gentle wind, And one lone cricket voice Mourning monotonously. Rain, Beating with a quiet refrain Like the countless beat Of tiny, restless, elfin fect. Stirring with a quaint wild rkythm And the bass Runs through like the long low roll of drums. Drip, drip, patter-pat, beat, beat, Echo, echo, restless foet. Rain, and the soaked fraBrance of gums, And the sweet Soft soothing beat Of the rain. frROoM out the great grey dampness comes the strange Near murmur of the sea fretting its shore : Incessantly. Nearer, the pines stirA swan cries dismally from somewhere high In the mist. Each gum, each sighing fir, Lifts dark moist boughs into the sky. And all the time, Comes hauntingly The long, low, hushing of the rainAnd a cricket mourns again-
Monotonously,
Nancy
Munro
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 17
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135Rain New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 17
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