Richard Henry Wilde Dillard Poems

Living among trees, we can only be
So proud, so much 'in control'
Of things, so sure of what
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Today I don't feel down so much as dazed,
As though this summer sun and thick hot heat
Has emptied early all the livelong day,
Has somehow drained the better part away
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Now, Julie, at last, you know "what kingdoms
Come," farewells past, wary to the end, but took
Too long, who, like Adam, knew the names
Of things so well, "lilac, forsythia, orange,
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