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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHITE BIRCHES, by EMILY MEGOW
First Line: Against the gray of dreary winter skies
Last Line: The hope of all mankind, o easter trees.
Subject(s): Birch Trees
First Line: Against the gray of dreary winter skies
Last Line: The hope of all mankind, o easter trees.
Subject(s): Birch Trees
Against the gray of dreary winter skies,
Like ghosts of summer days, the birches rise,
And memories spring with gentle, half-sweet pain
Of happiness that may not come again;
But with white birches shining through the gloom
A promise comes of spring's return and bloom;
Courage they give, for neither wind nor snow
Can dim their loveliness or lay them low;
Dauntless they stand throughout the stress of storm,
Still gleaming, white, unscathed, untouched, untorn.
Dear gallant trees, within thy life one sees
The hope of all mankind, O Easter trees.
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