Still falls the Rain —
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss —
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails
Upon the Cross.

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Full text online at Poetry archive — with audio of Sitwell reading the poem · A Poetry Channel reading of the poem · Canticle 3, '"Still Falls the Rain'" a classical musical composition by Benjamin Britten in which the poem is sung

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