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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 2, by HENRY WILLIAM HUTCHINSON Poet's Biography
First Line: The falling rain is music overhead
Last Line: "and sometimes, smiling, murmur, ""be it so!"
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
First Line: The falling rain is music overhead
Last Line: "and sometimes, smiling, murmur, ""be it so!"
Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War
The falling rain is music overhead,
The dark night, lit by no intruding star,
Fit covering yields to thoughts that roam afar
And turn again familiar paths to tread,
Where many a laden hour too quickly sped
In happier times, before the dawn of war,
Before the spoiler had whet his sword to mar
The faithful living and the mighty dead.
It is not that my soul is weighed with woe,
But rather wonder, seeing they do but sleep.
As birds that in the sinking summer sweep
Across the heaven to happier climes to go,
So they are gone; and sometimes we must weep,
And sometimes, smiling, murmur, "Be it so!"
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