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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OAK, by GEORGE HILL
First Line: A glorious tree is the old gray oak
Last Line: The heads of his foes in fight.
Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees; Trees
First Line: A glorious tree is the old gray oak
Last Line: The heads of his foes in fight.
Subject(s): Holidays; Oak Trees; Trees
A GLORIOUS tree is the old gray oak:
He has stood for a thousand years;
Has stood and frowned
On the trees around,
Like a king among his peers;
As round their king they stand, so now,
When the flowers their pale leaves fold,
The tall trees round him stand, arrayed
In their robes of purple and gold.
He has stood like a tower
Through sun and shower,
And dared the winds to battle;
He has heard the hail,
As from plates of mail,
From his own limbs shaken, rattle;
He has tossed them about, and shorn the tops
(When the storm has roused his might)
Of the forest-trees, as a strong man doth
The heads of his foes in fight.
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