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ADDRESSED TO A BEECH TREE ... by CHRISTIAN CARSTAIRS

First Line: WHAT TAINTS THY SHADE - OR DOTH THE YEAR DECAY?
Last Line: OR MOURNS THE TIME DELAYED.
Subject(s): BEECH TREES; TREES;
@3Addressed to a Beech Tree, on observing that some of
its Leaves were tinged by the Smoke of a Fire that had been kindled under it@1

WHAT taints thy shade -- or doth the year decay?
Yet soon again -- thy tender leaf revives.
I too, in silence, to the grave go down;
But hope inspires -- that still a sweeter spring
Awaits new joys;
Sweeter than even these fields;
Where oft the Muse in plaintive notes
Invites the coming year,
Or mourns the time delayed.



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