After Rain + 

The rain of a night and a day and a night + 

Stops at the light + 

Of this pale choked day. The peering sun + 

Sees what has been done. + 

The road under the trees has a border new + 

Of purple hue + 

Inside the border of bright thin grass: + 

For all that has + 

Been left by November of leaves is torn + 

From hazel and thorn + 

And the greater trees. Throughout the copse + 

No dead leaf drops + 

On grey grass, green moss, burnt-orange fern, + 

At the wind’s return: + 

The leaflets out of the ash-tree shed + 

Are thinly spread + 

In the road, like little black fish, inlaid, + 

As if they played. + 

What hangs from the myriad branches down there + 

So hard and bare + 

Is twelve yellow apples lovely to see + 

On one crab-tree. + 

And on each twig of every tree in the dell + 

Uncountable + 

Crystals both dark and bright of the rain + 

That begins again. + 