Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RAIN, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM


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RAIN, by                    
First Line: The sound of the rain is like the voice of a mystic
Last Line: Then the dead stand up and live again.
Subject(s): Life; Rain


"It is wholly impossible to find a meaning in life.
Reality is Will-blind, insatiable, unavoidable even after death." -- Schopenhauer.

THE sound of the rain is like the voice of a mystic touched with sadness;
Or old women speaking softly, sobbing quietly over a young mother dead of child birth;
Or a grey-bonneted quaker maiden, wistful as a May mist, lonely for a great lover.

In the solemn stride of the rain,
The dead walk.
When the rain murmurs and sobs,
The dead talk. --
The mystic, the women, the girl, the other dead.

The rain is no falling cloud, no cloud burst merely,
But a weak protest:
The dead say life costs too high a price. . .
Then the dead stand up and live again.





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