Mother always says to have patience, and when the drought breaks and good seasons come round again things will be better, but it's no good of trying to stuff me like that.

Thy eye from heaven this land beholdeth, Such fruitful dews down on it raining, That storehouse-like her lap enfoldeth Assuréd hope of ploughman's gaining: Thy flowing streams her drought doth temper so, That buried seed through yielding grave doth grow.

She would have been distressed and even indignant if I had revealed my thoughts; but the fact was there for all that; instead of brooding or fretting over small affairs, she was face to face with one of the great unanswerable, unfathomable facts of life, and her spirit drank in the solemnity, the greatness of it, as a flower after a drought drinks in the steady plunging rain.

In periods of drought offerings were made to it of birds (symbols of the winds) and it was sprinkled with water.

Long weeks of drought parch the earth, and then comes the sweet rain, and sets the flowers and the foliage dancing.

Below the main forest belt the trees likewise diminish in size, frost and burning drought repressing and blasting alike.

This was hard work, and my father was slaving away in the sun, and mine was arduous labour, and it was a very hot day, and a drought-smitten and a long day, and poddy calves ever have a tendency to make me moralize and snarl.

During droughts water your grafted fruit trees every evening.