To be answered in reference to "The Voice of the rain "(Hornbill):
What does the lines "For song i issuing from its birth place, after fulfillment, wandering " means ?

Solution-

The final two lines of Walt Whitman's poem "The Voice of the Rain" is an observation made by the poet. In the poem he personifies rain and provides it with human attributes.At the end of the poem he observes that the cyclical manner in which rain is generated from the Earth can be completed only by its return to the Earth. In other words it is like the love that has come back or has been requited. The rain that originated from the water bodies of the Earth, falls back on them in torrents, like a lover showers his affection on his lady-love. The rain is like a lover who keeps his promise and comes back to the Earth. The lines have been put in a bracket may be to show how the entire poem can be summed up into these three lines.

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