“He thought he saw an Elephant That practised on a fife: He looked again, and found it was A letter from his wife. ‘At length I realize,’ he said, ‘The bitterness of Life!'”
"The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea."(R.L. Stevenson in Rain)Charleroi-Jumet (B)
“If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me, even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk.”