<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Alder Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alder tree, O alder tree, <br>Over his grave reclining; <br>I've braided a wreath of the fairest flowers <br>That ever were fed by the spring-time showers. <br>Or nursed by the summer shining. <br>Short, but lovely, their lives have been, <br>Like his in the damp sod sleeping, <br>And I strew them now on the hillock green, <br>Where a mournful watch I'm keeping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alder tree! O alder tree! <br>Is it a voice of sorrow <br>That sighs 'mong thy leaves in the silent night, <br>When the radiant hue of the moonshine bright <br>Announceth a pleasant morrow? <br>'Tis a voice of wailing, O alder tree, <br>'Tis the evening breeze that weepeth, <br>'Tis the nightingale singing a song like me, <br>O'er the grave where my loved one sleepeth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Mackay">Charles Mackay</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=575220" data-title="The Alder Tree de Charles Mackay" data-description="Alder tree, O alder tree, Over his grave reclining; I've braided a wreath of the fairest flowers That ever were fed by the spring-time showers. Or nursed by the summer shining. Short, but lovely, their lives have been, Like his in the damp s..."></div> </div> </div>

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