The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost:
Nature shall mind her own affairs,
I will attend my proper cares,
In rain, or sun, or frost.
from: Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
New
York, Boston, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company: 1899. Introduction by Nathan
Haskell Dole.