The Planting Of The Apple-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Come let us plant the apple tree	A
Cleave the tough greensward with the spade	B
Wide let its hollow bed be made	B
There gently lay the roots and there	C
Sift the dark mould with kindly care	C
And press it o'er them tenderly	A
As round the sleeping infant's feet	D
We softly fold the cradle sheet	D
So plant we the apple tree	A
	-
What plant we in this apple tree	A
Buds which the breath of summer days	E
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays	E
Boughs where the thrush with crimson breast	F
Shall haunt and sing and hide her nest	F
We plant upon the sunny lea	A
A shadow for the noontide hour	G
A shelter from the summer shower	G
When we plant the apple tree	A
	-
What plant we in this apple tree	A
Sweets for a hundred flowery springs	H
To load the May wind's restless wings	H
When from the orchard row he pours	I
Its fragrance through our open doors	I
A world of blossoms for the bee	A
Flowers for the sick girl's silent room	J
For the glad infant sprigs of bloom	J
We plant with the apple tree	A
	-
What plant we in this apple tree	A
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June	K
And redden in the August noon	K
And drop when gentle airs come by	L
That fan the blue September sky	L
While children come with cries of glee	A
And seek them where the fragrant grass	M
Betrays their bed to those who pass	M
At the foot of the apple tree	A
	-
And when above this apple tree	A
The winter stars are quivering bright	N
And winds go howling through the night	N
Girls whose young eyes o'erflow with mirth	O
Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth	P
And guests in prouder homes shall see	A
Heaped with the grape of Cintra's vine	Q
And golden orange of the line	Q
The fruit of the apple tree	A
	-
The fruitage of this apple tree	A
Winds and our flag of stripe and star	R
Shall bear to coasts that lie afar	R
Where men shall wonder at the view	S
And ask in what fair groves they grew	S
And sojourners beyond the sea	A
Shall think of childhood's careless day	T
And long long hours of summer play	T
In the shade of the apple tree	A
	-
Each year shall give this apple tree	A
A broader flush of roseate bloom	J
A deeper maze of verdurous gloom	J
And loosen when the frost clouds lower	G
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower	G
The years shall come and pass but we	A
Shall hear no longer where we lie	L
The summer's songs the autumn's sigh	L
In the boughs of the apple tree	A
	-
And time shall waste this apple tree	A
Oh when its aged branches throw	U
Thin shadows on the ground below	U
Shall fraud and force and iron will	V
Oppress the weak and helpless still	V
What shall the tasks of mercy be	A
Amid the toils the strifes the tears	W
Of those who live when length of years	X
Is wasting this little apple tree	A
	-
Who planted this old apple tree	A
The children of that distant day	T
Thus to some aged man shall say	T
And gazing on its mossy stem	Y
The gray haired man shall answer them	Y
A poet of the land was he	A
Born in the rude but good old times	Z
T is said he made some quaint old rhymes	Z
On planting the apple tree	A

William Cullen Bryant

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