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**"The Cherry Trees"**
"The Cherry Trees" is about walking past cherry trees that are shedding their petals. Although the petals make the place looks beautiful and lovely, like a moment in a wedding, this place is not a happy place; those who have seen it are now dead, and the cherry trees bare no witness to happy times anymore.

**"The Cherry Trees"**
The cherry trees bend over and are shedding On the old road where all that passed are dead, Their petals, strewing the grass as for a wedding This early May morn when there is none to wed.

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 * Works Cited**

1. Fairlie, Brian. Personal photo. Used with permission. 2. Thomas, Edward. "Edward Thomas." __The Norton Anthology of English Literature Eighth Edition__. Ed. Greenblatt Stephen and M.H. Abrams. New York: W&W Norton & Company, 2006. 1956-1959.