And the grave is not its goal:
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
You, of course, recognize the line, "Into each life some rain must fall.” You will find that line in his poem called "The Rainy Day.” No doubt it is this Longfellow poem that helped spread the use of "rain" as a metaphor for the melancholy times in our lives.
from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Rescuing Longfellow
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