Life: April 4, 1819 - May 30, 1878
Birthday: April 4
Death: May 30
Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.
source: William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
topic: Rain, Sky, Wife, Faithful Wife