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APRIL RAIN SONG
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night—
And I love the rain.
Langston Hughes
African-American poet, writer, and activist Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967),
a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, the artistic movement centred in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, reminds us, in his poem April Rain Song, of the joy of rain even in cities.
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