THE TREES OF LIFE
by: Charles Godfrey Leland
(1824-1903)
 HE city
belles in Autumn
- Their gayest garments don;
In Autumn, too, the forests
Put brighter vesture on.
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- At night in snowy linen
The ladies sink to sleep;
In winter 'neath the snow-drifts
The trees seem slumbering deep.
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- Oh! loves and leaves--among you
A man must walk with care;
How soon we're lost in forests!
How soon 'mong ladies fair!
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"The Trees of Life" is
reprinted from The Music-Lesson of Confucius and Other Poems.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. |
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