太陽兄月亮妹*
相偕渡假去了/
最近輪值的是/
號稱「大地之詩」的雨*

晨間淅淅瀝瀝/
近午窸窸索索/
夜來款款喁喁/
不驚擾人間活動之需/

有時還邀風作伴/
似乎想趁立冬未寒/
看誰暴虎憑河，誰憂勤宵旰/
順便一探勁草芳蹤/
諦聽權經變常中的深邃平安/

The Voice of the Rain
~by Walt Whitman

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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