1. Unfailing rains flourish the world. <br /> ‘Nectar’, it is worthily called. <br />2. The rain makes tasty food to eat <br /> and serves itself as a drink sweet. <br />3. If the monsoons play truant, <br /> a lasting famine parches the sea-girt earth. <br />4. If the storm clouds shrink to pour, <br /> the ploughers won’t till the land. <br />5. The rain failure ruins life. <br /> To the ruined rise, it would fain rain. <br />6. If drops of rain from the clouds don’t shed, <br /> hardly we see the sprout of grass rears its head. <br />7. If the storms of thunder and lightning refuse to burst <br /> even the wealth of the ocean dwindles. <br />8. If heaven goes dry, festivals and worships, <br /> won’t be here ever to gods. <br />9. No more gifts and penance in this world <br /> if heavens cease to shower. <br />10.No water dooms the form of the world. <br /> No rain brings no order in life.<br /><br />rajendran muthiah<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thiru-valluvar-s-couplets-on-the-excellence-of-rain/
