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The rain in Portugal, poems, Billy Collins

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The rain in Portugal, poems, Billy Collins

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eng

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poetry

Main title

The rain in Portugal

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960041618

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Billy Collins

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poems

Summary

a--The Wall Street Journal The Rain in PortugalThe Rain in Portugal On Rhyme It's possible that a stitch in time might save as many as twelve or as few as three, and I have no trouble remembering that September has thirty days. So do June, November, and April. I like a cat wearing a chapeau or a trilby, Little Jack Horner sitting on a sofa, old men who are not from Nantucket, and how life can seem almost unreal when you are gently rowing a boat down a stream. That's why instead of recalling today that it mostly pours in Spain, I am going to picture the rain in Portugal, how it falls on the hillside vineyards, on the surface of the deep harbors where fishing boats are swaying, and in the narrow alleys of the cities where three boys in tee shirts are kicking a soccer ball in the rain, ignoring the window-cries of their mothers

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