. The New England magazine. --^r^ AURORAL. By Henry L. Mencken. A NOTHER day comes journeying with the/A The east grows ghastly with the dawnings*• And eer the dark has flown and night is doneThe citys pavements with their many teem. sun;gleam, Another day of toil and grief and pain; Life surely seems not sweet to such as these;Yet they live toiling that they may but gain The right to life and all lifes THE PATTER OF RAINDROPS. By Josephine Mason Leslie. THE patter of the raindrops overheadSometimes, at night, commingles with my sounds, through those soft shadows round me
. The New England magazine. --^r^ AURORAL. By Henry L. Mencken. A NOTHER day comes journeying with the/A The east grows ghastly with the dawnings*• And eer the dark has flown and night is doneThe citys pavements with their many teem. sun;gleam, Another day of toil and grief and pain; Life surely seems not sweet to such as these;Yet they live toiling that they may but gain The right to life and all lifes THE PATTER OF RAINDROPS. By Josephine Mason Leslie. THE patter of the raindrops overheadSometimes, at night, commingles with my sounds, through those soft shadows round me spread,Like the low murmuring of distant streams,—A sweet, a soothing, far-off melody,Before whose charm all earthly sorrows is the song we heard in days gone by;The song we knew and loved from early birth,Full of the primal love that cannot die—The tender mother-song of all the earth,So low, so sweet, so full of peace unsaid,—This patter of the raindrops overhead. The patter of the raindrops overhead Sometimes, at night, is full of fierce unrest. It falls upon ones spirit like the tread Of some vast, conquering army, wrath-possessed,— A strong, stern host, which no weak mercy knows, But seeks a just revenge on guilty foes. It is the footfall of the vanished years, The rising of the old, forgotten sins With their swift retinue of shame and fears. Then, as the wind with its long sob begins,
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