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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916.

92. Monotone

THE MONOTONE of the rain is beautiful,

And the sudden rise and slow relapse

Of the long multitudinous rain.

The sun on the hills is beautiful,

Or a captured sunset sea-flung,

Bannered with fire and gold.

A face I know is beautiful—

With fire and gold of sky and sea,

And the peace of long warm rain.