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The Apple Tree

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Secret and wise as nature, like the wind     Melancholy or light-hearted without reason,     And like the waxing or the waning moon     Ever pale and lovely: you are like these     Because you are free and live by your own law;     While I, desiring life and half alive,     Dream, hope, regret and fear and blunder on.     Your beauty is your life and my content,     And I will liken you to an apple-tree,     Mary and Margaret playing under the branches,     And everywhere soft shadows like your eyes,     And scattered blossom like your little smiles.

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