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A Poem For Earth Day

By The Daily Dish
Apr 20 2008, 1:34 AM ET

Leaves

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?

Continued here. Philip Larkin's Collected Poems can be bought here.



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