Okay, one more time and then I'm outta here!
(Hey you're supposed to say SOMETHING!)
Rain
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Deep into the woods dark and damp and deep
Creatures vie with nature for their troubled sleep
Summer rain falls slowly through branches and leaves
To make melody, the troubled souls of men to appease
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Come sweet gentle elixir of life
And drench the earth till her bosom be rife
With creatures without end, low and high
And taunt mortal man with his brief, fleeting life
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For no other sound on earth I believe
Rivals that of slow, sweet rain on autumn's leaves
It gives anguished men a brief reprieve
From knowledge that he too, one day will cease
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For such is the temperance of this our life
For joys and ecstacies that may chance by
For dreams and hopes that sustain us through the night
Death in the end is the price of life.
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