17: Nun ist der Regen hin.

Nun ist der Regen hin.--(Goed. 17.)

First published in Crü.--Runge, 1653, no. 315.

This simple nature poem expressing to the Almighty thanks for gracious sunshine after a storm has appeared but once in English verse, the version of J. Kelly, 1867, p. 298. The many poetic allusions and references to nature he has imitated very acceptably, at times even surpassing the thought of the original. In the first stanza the rhymes "gekehret" and "erhöret" have been especially aptly rendered by the accented ed in "turnéd" and spurnéd."

How successfully Kelly has caught the spirit of Gerhardt's nature description is evident in stanza 9: