WINTER TREES - Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Poems

 
 

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WINTER TREES

All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.