The Voice of the Rain a machine readable transcription Anonymous Susan Belasco Elizabeth Lorang Ed Folsom Kenneth M. Price Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Susan Belasco Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 per.00034 The Voice of the Rain <ref target="per.00168">Outing</ref> 6 August 1885 570 Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. updated TEI header converted to P5 proofread added information to sourceDesc transcribed and encoded THE VOICE OF THE RAIN.Reprinted in Leaves of Grass (1897). AND who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poém of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same, I descend to lave the drouths, atomies, dust-layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn, And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it: (For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering, Recked or unrecked, duly with love returns.) Walt Whitman.