123. In the Rain. William Wetmore Story. Yale Book of American Verse

Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915). Yale Book of American Verse. 1912.

William Wetmore Story. 1819–1895

123. In the Rain

I STAND in the cold gray weather,
In the white and silvery rain;
The great trees huddle together,
And sway with the windy strain.
I dream of the purple glory	5
Of the roseate mountain-height
And the sweet-to-remember story
Of a distant and clear delight.

The rain keeps constantly raining,
And the sky is cold and gray,	10
And the wind in the trees keeps complaining
That summer has passed away;—
But the gray and the cold are haunted
By a beauty akin to pain,—
By a sense of a something wanted,	15
That never will come again.