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The Lilac and the Apple
Kate Wolf

A Lilac bush and an Apple tree

Were standing in the woods

Out on the hill above the town,

Where once a farmhouse stood.

In the winter the leaves are bare

And no one sees the signs

Of a house that stood and a garden that grew

And life in another time.

One Spring when the buds came bursting forth

And grass grew on the land,

The Lilac spoke to the Apple tree

As only an old friend can.

Do you think, said the Lilac, this might be the year

When someone will build here once more?

Here by the cellar, still open and deep,

There's room for new walls and a floor.

Oh, no, said the Apple, there are so few

Who come here on the mountain this way

And when they do, they don't often see

Why we're growing here, so far away.

A long time ago we were planted by hands

That worked in the mines and the mills

When the country was young and the people who came

Built their homes in the hills.

But now there are cities, the roads have come

And no one lives here today

And the only signs of the farms in the hills

Are the things not carried away

Broken dishes, piles of boards,

A tin plate, an old leather shoe.

And an Apple tree still bending down

And a Lilac where a garden once grew.


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