First Line: A PINE-TREE STANDETH LONELY Last Line: ON ITS RIDGE OF BURNING STONE. Subject(s): MOURNING; PINE TREES; SOLITUDE; TREES; BEREAVEMENT; LONELINESS;
A pine-tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm Tree Which far in the East alone, In mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.