I bring fresh showers for the thirsting         flowers,     From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid     In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that         waken     The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's         breast,     As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,     And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain,     And laugh as I pass in thunder. From "The Cloud" by Percy Bysshe Shelley |