Living
Graceful Acacia! Slender, Brittle
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Graceful Acacia! slender, brittle,
I think I know the like of thee;
But thou art tall and she is little . .
What God shall call her his own tree?
Some God must be the last to change her;
From him alone she will not flee;
O may he fix to earth the ranger,
And may he lend her shade to me!
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Graceful Acacia! Slender, Brittle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/573/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Graceful Acacia! Slender, Brittle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/573/.
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