it bathed them in the Glee –

First significant rain in Edinburgh today, for close on a month, I reckon ...

... everything seemed to quickly turn a slightly deeper shade of green :-)

So; here's Emily Dickinson's "Summer Shower" - a wonderfully evocative poem, which describes the coming of rain to a dry summer land:


Summer Shower

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree –
Another – on the Roof –
A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves –
And made the Gables laugh –

A few went out to help the Brook,
That went to help the Sea –
Myself Conjectured were they Pearls –
What Necklaces could be –

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads –
The Birds jocoser sung –
The Sunshine threw his Hat away –
The Bushes – spangles hung –

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes –
And bathed them in the Glee –
The Orient put out a single Flag,
And signed the Fete away –

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Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

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