A Quote by Rossiter Johnson

How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet! How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet! How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn! How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

Rossiter Johnson

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Beneath Darkness Dawn Doors Drives Ending Feet How Lawn Moan Never Never-Ending Sheet Shutter Sigh The Doors Until Up

Quote Author

Rossiter Johnson
American - Author
January 27, 1840 - 1931

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