Hail the energy of Rain!
O Rain,
How mightily have you mated
Soil to bear this green carpet
On the banks of Iyiocha!*
Hasten and lay naked
Wholesome eggs of earth.
Long and strong, the watery spikes drop,
The spermatozoon of Rain, image maker of conception.
......
Drops.
In clots they come,
Jetting down festers of
The mean clouds that soar even higher.
Down here, the feet of the soil are mere clod.
Furnace rules upon the face of the waves,
Brewed and distilled from faceless chimneys.
The farmer’s rain is abroad.
......
Hail the energy of Rain!
O Rain,
How mightily have you mated
Soil to bear this green carpet
On the banks of Iyiocha!*
Hasten and lay naked
Wholesome eggs of earth.
Long and strong, the watery spikes drop,
The spermatozoon of Rain, image maker of conception.
......
Drops.
In clots they come,
Jetting down festers of
The mean clouds that soar even higher.
Down here, the feet of the soil are mere clod.
Furnace rules upon the face of the waves,
Brewed and distilled from faceless chimneys.
The farmer’s rain is abroad.
......