TREE IN RAIN.
The first metallic crops of rain come down With suddenness of javelins, one by one Stabbing each leaf whose green has dulled to brown
Beneath the ruthless torpor of the sun. Now fast and faster comes the rain until Staccato rhythms merge into a roar; The young tree sways beneath the torrent’s will, That felt the noon's dead calm an hour before. Drenched to the marrow, the insatiate tree Yields to the rain’s impetuous embrace; Each leaf and twig is ravished utterly Before the lover rain moves on apace. And now that he is gone, each leaf and limb Quickens and freshens with the thought of him. —Anderson M. Scruggs, in the Golden Book Magazine.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 62
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118TREE IN RAIN. Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 62
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