I guess I was feeling kind of depressed as a senior in high school, because the main lines I recall from Robert Louis Stevenson on RAIN are not those scattered over Google, but the following:
I am like one who has sat alone
all day on a level plain
with drooping head and trailing arms
in a ceaseless pour of rain.
I discovered that, unlike me, he didn’t stay depressed, but went on to his last verse:
And the purple fringes of the rain
Rose o’er the scarlet west,
And the birds sang in the soddened furze,
And my heart sang in my breast.
I’m with you on this one!
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