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Rains are back…

‘The hooded clouds, like friars Tell their beads in drops of rain’ ~Longfellow I am the poem of the Earth, said the voice of the rain ~Walt Whitman Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be! ~Emily Dickinson  

Posted byrethyMay 20, 2017Posted inNature, Poetry, Seasonal Ponderings, VietnamTags:#emilydickinson, #rains#clouds#poetry#longfellow2 Comments on Rains are back…

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