{"id":1833,"date":"2010-07-29T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2015-08-31T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T22:49:49","slug":"our-summer-poem-the-summer-rain-by-henry-david-thoreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/our-summer-poem-the-summer-rain-by-henry-david-thoreau\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Summer Poem: The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Summer Rain<\/strong> by Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n

\"Think<\/a>

Think cool thoughts on this steamy summer day. <\/p><\/div>\n

My books I\u2019d fain cast off, I cannot read,
\n\u2019Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large
\nDown in the meadow, where is richer feed,
\nAnd will not mind to hit their proper target.<\/p>\n

Plutarch was good, and so was Homer too,
\nOur Shakespeare\u2019s life were rich to live again,
\nWhat Plutarch read, that was not good nor true,
\nNor Shakespeare\u2019s books, unless his books were men.<\/p>\n

Here while I lie beneath this walnut bough,
\nWhat care I for the Greeks or for Troy town,
\nIf juster battles are enacted now
\nBetween the ants upon this hummock\u2019s crown?<\/p>\n

Bid Homer wait till I the issue learn,
\nIf red or black the gods will favor most,
\nOr yonder Ajax will the phalanx turn,
\nStruggling to heave some rock against the host.<\/p>\n

Tell Shakespeare to attend some leisure hour,
\nFor now I\u2019ve business with this drop of dew,
\nAnd see you not, the clouds prepare a shower\u2014
\nI\u2019ll meet him shortly when the sky is blue.<\/p>\n

This bed of herd\u2019s grass and wild oats was spread
\nLast year with nicer skill than monarchs use.
\nA clover tuft is pillow for my head,
\nAnd violets quite overtop my shoes.<\/p>\n

And now the cordial clouds have shut all in,
\nAnd gently swells the wind to say all\u2019s well;
\nThe scattered drops are falling fast and thin,
\nSome in the pool, some in the flower-bell.<\/p>\n

I am well drenched upon my bed of oats;
\nBut see that globe come rolling down its stem,
\nNow like a lonely planet there it floats,
\nAnd now it sinks into my garment\u2019s hem.<\/p>\n

Drip drip the trees for all the country round,
\nAnd richness rare distills from every bough;
\nThe wind alone it is makes every sound,
\nShaking down crystals on the leaves below.<\/p>\n

For shame the sun will never show himself,
\nWho could not with his beams e\u2019er melt me so;
\nMy dripping locks\u2014they would become an elf,
\nWho in a beaded coat does gayly go.<\/p>\n

(1842)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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