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Rain

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) · A Child's Garden of Verses · 1885

The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.

Where this text comes from

First published in A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]

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Taken from Standard Ebooks, standardebooks/robert-louis-stevenson_poetry, poetry.xhtml. Rights: public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931).

Earlier sources (8)

https://archive.org/details/worksofrobertlvol28stev
https://archive.org/details/worksofrobertlou14stev
https://archive.org/details/newpoemsandvaria00stevuoft
https://archive.org/details/poemshithertounp00stevrich
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31291
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30659
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/441
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems,_by_Robert_Louis_Stevenson,_hitherto_unpublished

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Cite this poem

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). “Rain.” First published in A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/robert-louis-stevenson/rain/. Append #L14 to cite line 14, or #L4-L9 for lines 4–9.

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