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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By MayburyFleming

1152 What Though the Green Leaf Grow?

WHAT though the green leaf grow?

’T will last a month and day;

In all sweet flowers that blow

Lurks Death, his slave Decay.

But if my lady smile

There is no Death at all;

The world is fair the while,—

What though the red leaf fall?


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