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Souls and Rain-Drops.

By Sidney Lanier

Topics: classic

Light rain-drops fall and wrinkle the sea,     Then vanish, and die utterly.     One would not know that rain-drops fell     If the round sea-wrinkles did not tell.     So souls come down and wrinkle life     And vanish in the flesh-sea strife.     One might not know that souls had place     Were't not for the wrinkles in life's face.

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About Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) was an American poet and musician whose poems—including "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee"—are known for their musical quality and celebration of the Southern landscape.

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