If It Should Rain

If it should rain—(the sneezy moon
Said: Rain)—then I shall hear it soon
From shingles into gutters fall…
And know, of what concerns me, all:

The garden will be wet till noon—
I I may not walk—my temper leans
To myths and legends—through the beans
Till they are dried—lest I should spread
Diseases they have never had.

I hear the rain: it comes down straight.
Now I can sleep, I need not wait
To close the windows anywhere.

Tomorrow, it may be, I might
Do things to set the whole world right.
There’s nothing I can do tonight.