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PURPLE BLOSSOMS, by                    
First Line: A babe sleeps under the lilac-tree
Last Line: "the whirling leaf swift eddies round, / and rests upon a new-made mound"
Subject(s): Flowers;growth


A BABE sleeps under the lilac-tree,
And coos in dreams a childish glee,
Till from a purple petal-rim
A dew-drop falling wakens him.

A youth waits under the lilac-tree;
The moon glides over silently.
Along the mottled vineyard slope
A shadow flits to mock his hope.

A man strides under the lilac-tree;
He crushes its branches heedlessly,
Not seeing 'neath the scented crest
A songster's feather-tufted nest.

The west wind moans through the lilac-tree,
And sets the last dead heart-leaf free;
The whirling leaf swift eddies round,
And rests upon a new-made mound.





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