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THE ONE SINGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: DEAD LEAVES FROM OFF THE TREE
Last Line: WHEN SHE IS LEFT ALONE.
Subject(s): SINGING & SINGERS; TREES; SONGS;
Dead leaves from off the tree
Make whirlpools on the ground;
Like dogs that chase their tails,
Those leaves go round and round;
Like birds unfledged and young,
The old bare branches cry;
Branches that shake and bend
To feel the winds go by.

No other sound is heard,
Save from those boughs so bare --
Hark! who sings that one song?
'Tis Robin sings so rare.
How sweet! like those sad tunes
In homes where grief's not known;
Or that a blind girl sings
When she is left alone.



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