The rain is raining all around
It falls on field and tree.
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
Rain
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One of the most famous four-line poems by this Scottish author was first published in his 1885 collection, A Child’s Garden of Verses. Despite its extreme simplicity, the poem was highly praised for using a child’s perspective to connect a small, local observation to a vast, global landscape.
