Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
between you and me.
Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,
And thing next most diffuse to cloud:
Not all your light tongues talking aloud
Could be profound.
But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
And if you have seen me when I slept,
You have seen me when I was taken and swept
and all but lost.
That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her —
Your head so much concerned with outer.
Mine with inner, weather.
Robert Frost
(posted in honor of my pomelo tree)
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