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All day the sun and rain have been as friends, / Each vying with the other which shall be / Most generous in dowering earth and sea / With their glad wealth, till each, as it descends, / Is mingled with the other, where it blends / In one warm, glimmering mist that falls on me / As once God's smile fell over Galilee. / The lily-cup, filled with it, droops and bends / Like some white saint beside a sylvan shrine / In silent prayer; the roses at my feet, / Baptized with it as with a crimson wine, / Gleam radiant in grasses grown so sweet, / The blossoms lift, with tenderness divine, / Their wet eyes heavenward with these of mine.