<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455592" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of the Trees</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">WE are the Trees. <br> Our dark and leafy glade <br>Bands the bright earth with softer mysteries. <br>Beneath us changed and tamed the seasons run: <br>In burning zones, we build against the sun <br> Long centuries of shade. <br> <br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the Trees, <br> Who grow for man’s desire, <br>Heat in our faithful hearts, and fruits that please. <br>Dwelling beneath our tents, he lightly gains <br>The few sufficiencies his life attains— <br> Shelter, and food, and fire. <br> <br>3</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the Trees <br> That by great waters stand, <br>By rills that murmur to our murmuring bees. <br>And where, in tracts all desolate and waste, <br>The palm-foot stays, man follows on, to taste <br> Springs in the desert sand. <br> <br>4</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the Trees <br> Who travel where he goes <br>Over the vast, inhuman, wandering seas. <br>His tutors we, in that adventure brave— <br>He launched with us upon the untried wave, <br> And now its mastery knows. <br> <br>5</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the Trees <br> Who bear him company <br>In life and death. His happy sylvan ease <br>He wins through us; through us, his cities spread <br>That like a forest guard his unfenced head <br> ’Gainst storm and bitter sky. <br> <br>6</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are the Trees. <br> On us the dying rest <br>Their strange, sad eyes, in farewell messages. <br>And we, his comrades still, since earth began, <br>Wave mournful boughs above the grave of man, <br> And coffin his cold breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Colborne-Veel">Mary Colborne-Veel</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455592" data-title="Song of the Trees de Mary Colborne-Veel" data-description="1 WE are the Trees. Our dark and leafy glade Bands the bright earth with softer mysteries. Beneath us changed and tamed the seasons run: In burning zones, we build against the sun Long centuries of shade. 2 We are the Trees, Who grow..."></div> </div> </div>

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