Rain
Edward Thomas
1878 to 1917
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Has not dissolved except the love of death,
Solitary, listening to the rain,
Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon:
Is dying tonight or lying still awake
Like a cold water among broken reeds,
Like me who have no love which this wild rain
Remembering again that I shall die
Myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff,
Either in pain or thus in sympathy
Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks
Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint.
For washing me cleaner than I have been
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
Helpless among the living and the dead,
But here I pray that none whom once I loved
If love it be towards what is perfect and
Since I was born into this solitude.