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Like crowded forest trees we stand, And some are marked to fall: The axe shall smite, at God’s command, And soon shall smite us all. Green as the bay tree, ever green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless have I seen; I passed, and they were gone.
Like crowded forest trees we stand, And some are marked to fall: The axe shall smite, at God’s command, And soon shall smite us all. Green as the bay tree, ever green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless have I seen; I passed, and they were gone.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- William Cowper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 615 · printed citation: Cowper · subject: TREE
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