Summer Shower

XI. SUMMER SHOWER.

A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof ; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went out to help the brook, That went to help the sea. Myself conjectured, Were they pearls, What necklaces could be ! The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung ; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung. The breezes brought dejected lutes, And bathed them in the glee ; The East put out a single flag, And signed the fête away.

 

from Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
"A little road not made of man"	Psalm of the Day

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