"Rain and Rain! and rain and rain!" <br />Yesterday we muttered <br />Grimly as the grim refrain <br />That the thunders uttered: <br />All the heavens under cloud -- <br />All the sunshine sleeping; <br />All the grasses limply bowed <br />With their weight of weeping. <br /> <br />Sigh and sigh! and sigh and sigh! <br />Never end of sighing; <br />Rain and rain for our reply -- <br />Hopes half-drowned and dying; <br />Peering through the window-pane, <br />Naught but endless raining -- <br />Endless sighing, and, as vain, <br />Endlessly conmplaining. <br /> <br />Shine and shine! and shine and shine! <br />Ah! to-day the splendor!-- <br />All this glory yours and mine -- <br />God! but God is tender! <br />We to sigh instead of sing, <br />Yesterday in sorrow, <br />While the lord was fashioning <br />This for our To-morrow!<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-to-sigh-instead-of-sing/
