id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-367 chapter-367 .txt text/plain 124 5 77 The Voice of the Rain And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formd, altogether changed, and I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn; And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it; (For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering, Reckd or unreckd, duly with love returns.) ./cache/chapter-367.txt ./txt/chapter-367.txt