Saturday, May 10, 2014

THE TREES by Philip Larkin








THE  TREES


by  Philip  Larkin


The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.


Is it that they are born again

And we grow old ? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.


Yet still the unresting castles thresh

In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.