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The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman
The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman

The Voice of the Rain

Walt Whitman * Track #305 On Leaves of Grass

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

1855

The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman in the poem describes a conversation between him and the rain. It is evident that the rain cannot, in literal terms, speak, but it may be understood that the poet listens to the sound, or the voice of the rain and tells us what it talks about

The Voice of the Rain Annotated

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 form'd, altogether changed, and
yet the same,
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,
Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.)

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