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CHERRY BLOOM by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: FRAILEST AND FIRST TO STAND
Last Line: THE PARENT TREE.
Subject(s): CHERRY TREES;
Frailest and first to stand
Upon the border-land
From darkness shriven,
In livery of death
Thou utterest the breath
And light of heaven.

Though profitless thou seem
As doth a poet's dream,
Apart from thee
Nor limb nor laboring root
May load with ripened fruit
The parent tree.



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