Lovely rains, knowing their season,
Always appear in spring. Entering night
Secretly on the wind, they silently
Bless things with such delicate abundance.

Good rain is coming to our delight. Its early-spring timing is perfectly right. With wind it drifts in all through the night. Silently it's drenching everything in sight. | "Welcome Rain in a Spring Night", as translated by Ying Sun (2008) | 好雨知時節 translated as "The good rain knows its season." in Kim Cheng Boey, Between Stations: Essays (2009), p. 102