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RAIN ON THE ROOF by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE

First Line: LOUD ON MY ROOF THE REGIMENTS OF RAIN
Last Line: WHERE ONLY SILENCE AND HER LEGIONS CREEP.
Subject(s): RAIN;

LOUD on my roof the regiments of rain
March with their old insistence, and I hear
Troop after troop, column and troop again,
Sweep by before Dawn's shining hosts appear.

O armies of the night, your rhythmic tramp
Lures me at last to the dim bourne of Sleep,
And you and I find peace in some far camp
Where only Silence and her legions creep.



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