“I give permission
For this slow spring rain to soak
The violet beds.”
Haiku: This Other World (1998)
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Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).