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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FOUNTAIN IN THE RAIN, by KATHARINE R. SIEGERT
First Line: When the storm clouds loose their torrents
Last Line: Like the fountain in the rain.
Subject(s): Fountains; Rain
First Line: When the storm clouds loose their torrents
Last Line: Like the fountain in the rain.
Subject(s): Fountains; Rain
When the storm clouds loose their torrents,
Whipping garden, hill, and plain,
There is courage, staunch and loyal
In the fountain in the rain.
Shorn of all its rainbow colors,
All its lacy, opal spray,
Beaten back in heavy splashes,
Vanquished quite its elfin play,
Straight it leaps to meet the downpour
Like a silver dart of light,
Bounding skyward through the deluge,
Springing -- thrusting with its might.
May I meet life's stormy weather --
Sure the sun will shine again --
With a bounding spirit ever
Like the fountain in the rain.
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