Summer Rain
A flash of lightning hurts my eyes, A peal of thunder strikes my ears, As night the earth begins to shroud— They fill my heart with restless fears. An inky darkness settles down, Cut sharply by a lightning flash; Then blackness covers all again, Until there comes another crash!
Large raindrops now begin to fall, Then fast they fall and still more fast; They overflow the parched earth, Until they seem a deluge vast. I hold my breath, but think of how All things that grow will have new life, The corn a golden harvest yield, The fields with fruit and flowers rife.
The storm roars on into the night; At last I sink in slumber deep, And when at morn I wake again, The sun's rays through my window peep. All things outdoors are washed in gold, All things in breathless beauty furled; A Paradise I look upon In this new lovely, wondrous world.