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11 Rain in Summer
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the
overflowing spout!
Across the window pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
fi ery : like fire gushes : flows in a strong stream
narrow : small in width swift : quick
clatters : sounds like many things gutter : a channel for carrying
hitting one another away rainwater
tramp of hoofs : sound of a horse’s down the gutter roars : poetic way
steps of saying ‘roars down the
gutter’
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