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Children's voices in the orchard
Between the blossom- and the fruit-time:
With sudden roar and aged pine-tree falls,--
One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree,
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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend,
Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
It were a blessed sight to see
That child become a willow tree,
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they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
He asked if I would sell my Christmas trees;
My woods the young fir balsams like a place
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I wish I could promise to lie in the night
And think of an orchard's arboreal plight
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