O, For a Rainy Day.

These days are hot, and dry, and dreary; The burning sun seems never weary The vine lies limp on the thirsty earth— The grass grows sere in the long, long dearth— The days are dusty, hot and dreary. The sky is cloudless, brassy, dreary, The wind seems ever languid, weary But hope still clings to the gifts of the Past— We trust that the rain will come at last And the days be damp and cheery. O, clouds sweep o’er, veil the sun’s hot shining! With copious rains, come, hush all repining, Swell the shrunken grains of the sun-burnt lands, With new, green grass clothe the arid sands, Then the days will be bright and cheery.