Poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley

German Rain

The heat came down and sapped away my powers.
The laden heat came down and drowned my brain,
Till through the weight of overcoming hours
           ⁠I felt the rain.

Then suddenly I saw what more to see
I never thought: old things renewed, retrieved.
The rain that fell in England fell on me,
           ⁠And I believed.

1. A Hundred Thousand Million Mites We Go
2. Whom Therefore We Ignorantly Worship
3. Richard Jefferies
4. If I Have Suffered Pain
5. Rooks (There is such cry in all these birds)

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