THEY HAVE CUT DOWN THE PINES

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THEY HAVE CUT DOWN THE PINES

• By
• Mary Lisle

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They have cut down the pines
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where they stood
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The wind will miss them -
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the rain,
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When its silver blind is down.
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They have stripped the bark from the wood
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The needly boughs,
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and the brownKnobbly nuts trodden into the
ground.
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The kind, the friendly trees,
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Where all day small winds sound,
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And all day long the sun
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Plays hide and seek with shadows
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Till the multiplying shadows turn to one
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And night is here.
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They have cut down the trees
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and ended now
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The gentle colloquy of bough and bough.
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They are making the fence by the creek,
They have made a fence by the creek,
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And have cut down the pines for the posts.
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Wan in the sunlight as ghosts

• The naked trunks lie.

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A bird nested there it will seek

• In vain

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they have cut down the pines.