Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE PINE TREE, by LAURA MARQUAND WALKER


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THE PINE TREE, by                    
First Line: Straightway from out its brown pine needle bed
Last Line: O wind-swept harmony of sight and sound!
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Trees


Straightway from out its brown pine needle bed
Rears the tall pine and mingles with the sky,
Its green, green warp of Nature's favorite dye
Close woven with the woof of blue o'erhead.
Crisp interlacing branches are outspread;
And formal shape of pine-cone we descry
All drawn into that wondrous shape on high.
A scarlet tanager, one spot of red,
Perches far up amid the green and blue
And from its vantage looks the world around.
All, all is silent save the winds that woo
And coming from the Waters sway the trees
Making through them the murmuring of the Seas.
O wind-swept harmony of sight and sound!





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