Charles Mackay (Чарльз Маккей)

The Alder Tree

Alder tree, O alder tree,
Over his grave reclining;
I've braided a wreath of the fairest flowers
That ever were fed by the spring-time showers.
Or nursed by the summer shining.
Short, but lovely, their lives have been,
Like his in the damp sod sleeping,
And I strew them now on the hillock green,
Where a mournful watch I'm keeping.

Alder tree! O alder tree!
Is it a voice of sorrow
That sighs 'mong thy leaves in the silent night,
When the radiant hue of the moonshine bright
Announceth a pleasant morrow?
'Tis a voice of wailing, O alder tree,
'Tis the evening breeze that weepeth,
'Tis the nightingale singing a song like me,
O'er the grave where my loved one sleepeth! 

1. The Poor Man's Sunday Walk
2. The Floating Straw
3. Mary and Lady Mary
4. The Greenwood Tree
5. John Littlejohn

Распечатать (To print)

Количество обращений к стихотворению: 1550

Последние стихотворения

To English version