On a little churchyard
Th’ rain is fawin’ dree,
Wheer’s th’ little babby
I once nussed on my knee?
O. My arms are empty –
God be good to me!
Droppin’ deawn like trouble,
Rain on land an’ sea
Rain on teawn and’ country,
Rain on street an’ tree;
An’ in my heart it’s rainin’ –
God be good to me!
We know that but for rainin’
No bread nor flowers would be;–
Everything’s for summat
If we could but see.
But my een is full o’ rainin’-
God be good to me!
On a little churchyard
The rain is drear an’ dree
We’re towd o’ little angels
In heaven’s sweet sunny glee.
But th’ heavens is hid by rainin’-
God be good to me!
(Charles Allen Clarke)
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