A Rainy Day – Mother And Daughter – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith

A Rainy Day – Mother And Daughter – Illustration By Jessie Willcox Smith
from Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, 1908

A Rainy Day
from Dream Blocks by Aileen Cleveland Higgins, 1908

When I woke up and saw the rain
In blurs upon the window-pane,
I said I hated such a day,
Because I couldn’t run and play,
Out in the sunshine and the grass.
It’s queer how such a day can pass
So soon, before you know it ‘most.
And while I eat my milk and toast,
Before I go to bed, I think
I’ve never had a day so pink.
Without the sun to make the shine,
This whole day long has been just mine
And Mother’s, in the fireplace glow. –
Because it rained, it made it so.