Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]

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Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]
Author
Savage, Philip Henry, 1868-1899
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Boston: Small, Maynard, and Company
1900
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"Poems of Philip Henry Savage / Philip Henry Savage [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD0829.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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THE MAPLE-TREE

DAY after day I travel down From Billerica to the town; Day after day, in passing by A cedar-pasture, gray and high, See, shining clear and far, (a mile), The white church-steeple of Carlisle; And bright between Carlisle and me, Daily a glowing maple-tree.

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Suffused with yellow, every part Is burning saffron at the heart. Upwards and warm the colors gain From ruddy gold to claret-stain; And downward tending, lightly lean To citron yellow and cold green. Day after autumn day it still More deeply burns against the hill. And now I 've made of it a type Of hopes, like mine, near autumn-ripe, And watch, intent, which first shall be, The consummation of the tree, Or that gold harvest-hope prepared for me.
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