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The burning of the leaves

and other poems: By Laurence Binyon
Binyon, Laurence (1869-1943)

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Ezekiel
  
High over the battling Street
  
The Lamp of Greece
  
The Winds of all the World
  
The Cherry Trees
  
The Orchard
  
To Elsie Fogerty
  
Winter Sunrise

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The Cherry Trees

Out of the dusk of distant woods
All round beneath the April skies
Blossom-white, the cherry trees
Like lovely apparitions rise,
Like spirits strange to this ill world,
White strangers from a world apart,
Like silent promises of peace,
Like hope that blossoms in the heart.
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