Rain in Summer

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
in the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!

How it chatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing
spout!

Across the windowpane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow