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\nStrives to spoil your walk,
\nRather, thankful for it let you be,
\nWhen of the weather you talk.<\/p>\n
Curse not the rain as it pours,
\nAs you walk through puddles and floods…
\nIt is the reason for the beauty of our land…
\nThe fields of green and peaceful woods…<\/p>\n
Somewhere, in another land…
\nUnderneath a sunny sky…
\nDesperate people pray to God and Gods for rain…
\nWondering will if fall, when, and if not… why?<\/p>\n
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Don’t curse the rain as it falls, Strives to spoil your walk, Rather, thankful for it let you be, When of the weather you talk. Curse not the rain as it pours, As you walk through puddles and floods… It is the reason for the beauty of our land… The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[232],"tags":[39,2345,12,442],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-2","tag-athlone","tag-ireland","tag-nature","tag-river-shannon","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-eF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4725,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/drumshambo-july-12th\/","url_meta":{"origin":909,"position":0},"title":"Drumshambo: July 12th","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th July 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The dead from the Great Hunger, with no names, lie and are remembered. 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