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How it pours, pours, pours, :In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! :How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! :How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, :From darkness until dawn.
How it pours, pours, pours, :In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! :How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! :How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, :From darkness until dawn.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 655 · quotation 4 · Rossiter Johnson · Rhyme of the Rain.
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