“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a classic example of anthropomorphism, I am pretty sure that the bud never complains of the rain delaying his blooming a day or two. So why do I ? ††† en theos jimwork
I’ve managed to track down the Longfellow quotation. It’s from a poem called “The Poet’s Tale: The Birds of Killingworth”:
http://tinyurl.com/k5cpfsv