A California Rain Song

0:00 The California Rain Song by Henry Mead Bland,

0:04 read for the Brevox.org brand new gate

0:08 novelist.

0:08 The winds are sweeping from Monterey,

0:12 and over the peaks of the Blue Coast Range,

0:16 the storm clouds are tossing their milk-white

0:20 hair,

0:20 and singing of birth and of life and change.

0:23 And the live young farmer stands at his door,

0:27 and hears in that wild titanic tune a promise

0:32 of kind and rare white rose,

0:34 and the story white of the blossoming prune.

0:38 And to her, his wife, at the windowsill,

0:42 there never had come a vision more fair,

0:46 the low hills bathed in the sweet south wind,

0:50 and the storm clouds tossing their milk-white

0:54 hair.