"On the Rainbow: In Blank Verse"
poem V
on the ra
poem VI
on the rainbow
in blank verse
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The rainbows beautiesare my joy.
in rains where rainbows are the be/,
a
and shoot s
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hose rays of light to me/,
b
when
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all the beauties of them are,
and those that see them allr
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eflect.
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d
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and those that have the colours best,
show me those rays of light that all
reflect upon. And
e
all that know
about the rainbow will reflectthose rays
of light that come towards them
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10 always are
The ornament of all the sky
but those that don
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ot
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know about that light
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reflect not on it. and in all that light
not one ofall
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the colours do they know
but all that see it justly think upon
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The maker of it
h
justly is not he
best of the rainbows b
.B
ut what lightis that
which to us from that god does flow.
all of the men that from that godsee light
Will say. what light is this
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brown is the rainbow whencompared with this
and all the men that see it all reflect
upon The
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beauties of the rainbow