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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RAIN-SONGS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain streams down like harp-strings from the sky
Last Line: He plays upon the harp-strings of the rain.
Subject(s): African Americans; Rain; Negroes; American Blacks
First Line: The rain streams down like harp-strings from the sky
Last Line: He plays upon the harp-strings of the rain.
Subject(s): African Americans; Rain; Negroes; American Blacks
THE rain streams down like harp-strings from the sky;
The wind, that world-old harpist sitteth by;
And ever as he sings his low refrain,
He plays upon the harp-strings of the rain.
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