Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="TREE_SOUNDS" id="TREE_SOUNDS"></SPAN>Tree Sounds</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">T</span>HE forest closed and folded<br/></span> <span class="ih">About me like a tent.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The tree tops swayed and toppled<br/></span> <span class="i2">Rain riven and wind-rent.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The old harp in the pine trees<br/></span> <span class="i2">Struck cords minor and deep.<br/></span> <span class="i0">So in the storm tossed forest<br/></span> <span class="i2">I was rocked to sleep.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">That was long ago, O’ ages,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Yet thru these rushing years,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The sounds of a wind rent forest<br/></span> <span class="i2">Is ever in my ears.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_48" id="page_48">{48}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />