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The April rain, the April rain,
Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
The cuckoo through the April rain
Calls once again.

Mathilde Blind

War rages on the teeming earth;
The hot and sanguinary fight
Begins with each new creature's birth:
A dreadful war where might is right;
Where still the strongest slay and win,
Where weakness is the only sin.

Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind

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Born: March 21, 1841

Died: November 26, 1896 (aged 55)

Bio: Mathilde Blind was a German-born English poet. Her work was praised by Matthew Arnold and French politician and historian Louis Blanc. Her epic poem The Ascent of Man gave an account of the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Known for:

The Ascent Of Man (1889)
Dramas In Miniature (1891)
The Heather on Fire (1886)
The Prophecy of Saint Oran And Other Poems (1881)
Madame Roland (1886)

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