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I sat beneath a willow tree	A
Where water falls and calls	B
While fancies upon fancies solaced me	A
Some true and some were false	C
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Who set their heart upon a hope	D
That never comes to pass	E
Droop in the end like fading heliotrope	D
The sun's wan looking glass	E
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Who set their will upon a whim	F
Clung to through good and ill	G
Are wrecked alike whether they sink or swim	F
Or hit or miss their will	G
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All things are vain that wax and wane	H
For which we waste our breath	I
Love only doth not wane and is not vain	H
Love only outlives death	I
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A singing lark rose toward the sky	J
Circling he sang amain	H
He sang a speck scarce visible sky high	J
And then he sank again	H
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A second like a sunlit spark	K
Flashed singing up his track	L
But never overtook that foremost lark	K
And songless fluttered back	L
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A hovering melody of birds	M
Haunted the air above	N
They clearly sang contentment without words	M
And youth and joy and love	N
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O silvery weeping willow tree	A
With all leaves shivering	O
Have you no purpose but to shadow me	A
Beside this rippled spring	O
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On this first fleeting day of Spring	O
For Winter is gone by	J
And every bird on every quivering wing	O
Floats in a sunny sky	J
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On this first Summer like soft day	P
While sunshine steeps the air	Q
And every cloud has gat itself away	P
And birds sing everywhere	Q
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Have you no purpose in the world	R
But thus to shadow me	A
With all your tender drooping twigs unfurled	R
O weeping willow tree	A
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With all your tremulous leaves outspread	R
Betwixt me and the sun	H
While here I loiter on a mossy bed	R
With half my work undone	H
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My work undone that should be done	H
At once with all my might	R
For after the long day and lingering sun	H
Comes the unworking night	R
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This day is lapsing on its way	P
Is lapsing out of sight	R
And after all the chances of the day	P
Comes the resourceless night	R
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The weeping willow shook its head	R
And stretched its shadow long	S
The west grew crimson the sun smouldered red	R
The birds forbore a song	S
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Slow wind sighed through the willow leaves	T
The ripple made a moan	H
The world drooped murmuring like a thing that grieves	T
And then I felt alone	H
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I rose to go and felt the chill	G
And shivered as I went	R
Yet shivering wondered and I wonder still	G
What more that willow meant	R
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That silvery weeping willow tree	A
With all leaves shivering	O
Which spent one long day overshadowing me	A
Beside a spring in Spring	O

Christina Rossetti

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