Life may be drear, and hope seem far away. But ever through the mist some bird will sing; And through the dullest, rainy world of gray, Some bright-hued flower, its flash of promising bring.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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- Rainy Day, closing four lines; Consecutive concluding lines, preserving the Academy edition wording and punctuation; full poem read.
- Rainy Day, closing four lines
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