Who sets an apple tree may live to see it end,
Who sets a pear tree may set it for a friend.
Hereford.
Their loveliness of life and leaf
At last the waving trees have shed;
The garden ground is sown with grief,
The gay chrysanthemum is dead.
But oh! remember this:
There must be birth and blossoming;
Nature will waken with a kiss
Next Spring!
Clement Scott.
Thorny balls, each three in one,
The chestnuts throw in our path in showers!
For the drop of the woodland fruit's begun,