Edna St. Vincent Millay «The Hedge of Hemlocks»
The Hedge of Hemlocks Somebody long ago Set out this hedge of hemlocks; brought from the woods, I;d say, Saplings ten inches tall, curving and delicate, not shaped like trees, And set them out, to shut the marshes from the lawn, A hedge of ferns. Four feet apart he set them, far apart, leaving them room to grow … Whose crowded lower boughs these fifty years at least Are spiky stumps outthrust in all direction, dry, dropping scaly bark, in the deep shade making a thick Dust which here and there floats in a short dazzling beam. Green tops, delicate … Читать далее →