The natives of the rain are rainy men.

In Stevens’s idiom, the line reads like a compressed aphorism about how environment and imagination shape identity. “Natives of the rain” suggests people formed by a particular climate or condition; to be “rainy men” is not merely to live in rain but to have one’s temperament, language, and inner weather saturated by it. The phrasing also hints at Stevens’s recurring idea that perception and world interpenetrate: we become like what we habitually experience, and we describe reality through the metaphors it gives us. The line’s tautology (“rain” → “rainy”) is part of its point—belonging produces likeness, almost automatically.