Send the Showers

 

“Mercy-drops round us are falling,
  But for the showers we plead.”
Daniel Webster Whittle (1840-1901)

 

 

Let’s plead for the showers.

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2 Responses to Send the Showers

  1. God has a lot of PR to do about rain…to make His rain welcome, a counterpoint to that described by Henry Treece in his WW2 poem, “Lincolnshire Bomber Station”.

    Across the road the homesick Romans made
    The ground-mist thickens to a milky shroud;
    Through flat, damp fields call sheep, mourning their dead
    In cracked and timeless voices, unutterably sad,
    Suffering for all the world, in Lincolnshire.

    And I wonder how the Romans liked it here;
    Flat fields, no sun, the muddy misty dawn,
    And always, above all, the mad rain dripping down,
    Rusting sword and helmet, wetting the feet
    And soaking to the bone, down to the very heart . . .

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