The Voice of the Rain Poem Explanation And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Who art thou – Who are you Eternal – never-ending Impalpable – which cannot be described Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely formed, altogether changed, and yet the same, I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe, And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn; Whence – where Vaguely – not clearly Descend – come down Lave – wash; bathe Atomics – small particles Latent – hidden/buried And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, And make pure and beautify it; (For the song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfillment, wandering Reck’d or unreck’d, duly with love returns.) Reck’d or unreck’d – it means whether cared for or not cared for. It doesn’t affec