The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits—he is waiting—
And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
ATTRIBUTION:
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. Memorial Rain (l. 37–39). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
