The cherry trees bend over and are shedding On the old road where all that passed are dead, Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding This early May morn when there is none to wed.
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First published in Poems (1917). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1]
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Edward Thomas (1878–1917).
“The Cherry Trees.” First published in Poems (1917).
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