<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lime Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That lime tree on the distant rising ground<br>(If it was a lime tree) showed her yellow leaves<br>Above the renewed green of wet August grass--<br>First Autumn yellow that on first Autumn eves<br>Too soon was found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Comfortless lime tree! Scarce an aspen leaf<br>Like a green butterfly flitted to the ground;<br>There was no sign of Autumn in the grass.<br>Even the long garden beds their beauty brief--<br>Their mignonette,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nasturtium and sweet-william and red stocks,<br>And clover crouching in the border grass,<br>And blood-like fuschia, eve's primrose and white phlox<br>And honeysuckle--waved all their smell and hue<br>Morn and eve anew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But that far lime tree yellowing by the oak,<br>Warning oak, elm and poplar and each fresh tree<br>Shaking in the south wind delightedly,<br>And clover in the closeness of the grass,<br>Warns also me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now when all the trees are standing still<br>Beneath the purple and white of the west sky,<br>And time is standing still--as stand it will--<br>That early yellowing lime with palsied fingers<br>Cannot be still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Freeman">John Freeman</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=577027" data-title="The Lime Tree de John Freeman" data-description="That lime tree on the distant rising ground (If it was a lime tree) showed her yellow leaves Above the renewed green of wet August grass-- First Autumn yellow that on first Autumn eves Too soon was found. Comfortless lime tree! Scarce an aspen le..."></div> </div> </div>

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