The Rainbow

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air,

 they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow

 is a division of white light into many beautiful colors.

These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above,

and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to

legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it.

When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for

the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Throughout the centuries people have
explained the rainbow in various ways. Some have accepted it as a miracle
without physical explanation.

To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods. The Greeks used to

imagine that it was a sign from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain. he Norsemen considered the

rainbow as  a bridge over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky.