Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling --
Sometimes -- scalps a Tree --
Her Green People recollect it
When they do not die --
Fainter Leaves -- to Further Seasons --
Dumbly testify --
We -- who have the Souls --
Die oftener -- Not so vitally --
Classic poem
Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling
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About this poem
- First line
- Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling --
- Poet
- Emily Dickinson
- Themes
- nature, death, faith, time
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