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THE RAINBOW by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: RAINBOWS ARE LOVELY THINGS
Last Line: WOULD COME AGAIN, AND AGAIN!
Subject(s): RAINBOWS;

Rainbows are lovely things:
The bird, that shakes a cold, wet wing,
Chatters with ecstasy,
But has no breath to sing:
No wonder, when the air
Has a double-rainbow there!

Look, there's a rainbow now!
See how that lovely rainbow throws
Her jewelled arm around
This world, when the rain goes!
And how I wish the rain
Would come again, and again!



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