<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="" class="head">Rain</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">AH! when it rains all day</p><p class="line">And the sky is a mist</p><p class="line">That creeps by chillily</p><p class="line">Where sun once kissed,</p><p class="line">Like death pale shroud,</p><p class="line">My soul cries out aloud</p><p class="line">In hopeless misery.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I cannot read nor write</p><p class="line">A line for gloom,</p><p class="line">My life lags, drenched of light</p><p class="line">To cheer its tomb;</p><p class="line">Chill and wet.</p><p class="line">Comfortless I fret</p><p class="line">In hopeless night!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">And naught to hear but rain</p><p class="line">Battering the ground!</p><p class="line">O numbing pain!</p><p class="line">O maddening sound!</p><p class="line">Drowned in sky</p><p class="line">Trees drip, drip, and sigh</p><p class="line">And drip, drip, again!</p></div><p>France, 1917.</p></body></html> · Great War