CORNELL 



R\iral ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACHER] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 3 ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL AND MAY, 1910 No. S 



RAINY DAY 



L. H. Bailey 



HE soft, gray rain comes slowly down, 

 Settling the mists on marshes brown, 

 Narrowing the world on wood and hill, 

 Drifting the fog down vale and rill. 

 The weed=stalks bend with pearly drops, 

 The grasses hang their misty tops. 

 The clean leaves drip with tiny spheres, 

 The fence rails run with pleasant tears. 



Away with care! I walk today 



In meadows wet and forests gray; — 



'Neath heavy trees with branches low, 



'Cross splashy fields where wild things grow. 



Past shining reeds in knee-deep tarns. 



By soaking crops and black-wet barns. 



On mossy stones in dripping nooks. 



Up rainy pools and brimming brooks 



With waterfalls and cascadills 



Fed by the new=born grassy rills; — 



And then return across the lots 



Through all the soft and watery spots. 



Away with care! I walk today 

 In meadows wet and forests gray. 



— By courtesy of the Century Company 

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