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Read the poem and fill in the blanks with the correct information from the poem. And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange…

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Read the poem and fill in the blanks with the correct information from the poem.

And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated:
I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain,
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same,
I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe,
And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
(For song, issuing from its birth-place, after fulfilment, wandering,
Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with love returns.)

'The Voice of the Rain' is an account of the poet's (I) ...... with the rain. The poet asks the rain about its (II) ....... All of a sudden, the rain, as a bodiless human being, replies that she is a 'Poem of Earth', and, travels from the land and the deep sea towards the (III) ....... in different forms. The rain explains that she descends down to the earth to wash the droughts and dust from (IV) ......, and, leads to the creation of life. The rain compares its process of continuous regeneration to the way a song returns to its (V) ........ . The way bits and pieces of the lyrics and tones might change in due course of its journey, but it retains its identity all the same.

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