• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich: We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
    Thomas Bailey ALDRICH (1859). “The Ballad of Babie Bell, and Other Poems”, p.24