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Poems descriptive, dramatic, legendary and contemplative | ||
[VI. No fruits, no life!—what matter if the tree]
No fruits, no life!—what matter if the treeStill lifts a brow erect against the sky,
Great shaft and mighty branches,—if there be
No blossom, in his season, for the eye—
No green of leaf, no gorgeous pageantry,
Wooing the prolific and embracing air
To harbor in the noontide, and to brood
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While birds sit swinging with their young ones there;
Their life a summer day or less—not long,
But still a life of blossom and of song,—
The blossom and the song being each a birth,
Born only of the fruit, and born of earth,
For earth, that still love's promise might be fair!
Poems descriptive, dramatic, legendary and contemplative | ||