The Raining

The Raining written by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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       The night I left my father said:
       "You'll go and do some stupid thing.
       You've no more sense in that fat head
       Than silly Billy Witterling.

       "Not sense to come in when it rains -
       Not sense enough for that, you've got.
       You'll get a bullet through your brains,
       Before you know, as like as not."

       And now I'm lying in the trench
       And shells and bullets through the night
       Are raining in a steady drench,
       I'm thinking the old man was right.

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