Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

sound. Such was the sunlight shattering the rain - only far more wonderful. The falling drops caught the sunlight, sparkled brilliantly and carrying it to earth broke it into diamond dust; wet roofs caught and sent it shattering to the glistening tree-leaves - where it hung momentarily until jarred loosed by the wind it came back thru the glossy elastic air, and so it flashed back and fort till the air was a sparkle of light.(HT)I looked for a rainbow, but the sunlight was of short life. The sky became overcast