Last year's leaves withered and dry <br />Beneath their leafless mother lie <br />On this cold day in January <br />I pity you poor leafless tree. <br /> <br />You look sad this Winter day <br />Without your leafy green array <br />And in these times of frost and storm <br />You've no leaves to keep you warm. <br /> <br />Gone are all the lovely flowers <br />That bloomed in the Summer hours <br />And gone the bees and butterflies <br />That adorned the sunny skies. <br /> <br />You stand in a state of gloom <br />Since Winter's blown the breath of doom <br />It took the green leaves you did wear <br />And left you shivering and bare. <br /> <br />Without the sun's glowing face <br />This land is a dreary place <br />Yesterday rain, frost today <br />Summer seems so far away. <br /> <br />But poor lonely leafless tree <br />Summer will come just wait and see <br />And you'll don a new coat of green <br />And stand prouder than any queen. <br /> <br />And on your branches in the Spring <br />The happy birds of song will sing <br />And like a monarch you'll survey <br />The beauty that is born in May.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-leafless-tree/
