the sunshine threw his hat away

It really is very wet here in Edinburgh today - certainly feels like a day for some weather-appropriate, Emily Dickinson verse:


A Drop fell on the Apple Tree

A Drop fell on the Apple Tree –
Another – on the Roof –
A Half a Dozen kissed the Eaves –
And made the Gables laugh –

A few went out to help the Brook,
That went to help the Sea –
Myself Conjectured were they Pearls –
What Necklaces could be –

The Dust replaced, in Hoisted Roads –
The Birds jocoser sung –
The Sunshine threw his Hat away –
The Bushes – spangles hung –

The Breezes brought dejected Lutes –
And bathed them in the Glee –
The Orient put out a single Flag,
And signed the Fete away –

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Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

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