rain
A heavy rain is good for the fields and bad for the roads.
1001 Yiddish Proverbs by Fred Kogos (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1970), 26.
It is lonely without the birds to-day, for it rains badly, and the little poets have no umbrellas.
The Letters of Emily Dickinson vol 2 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1955), 471.