The Fir And Palm-Tree Dreaming A Wedding That Cannot Be Poem by Terence George Craddock

snow and ice or sand and sun
contrast a cold or hot climate
each has a climate suited tree
a single fir-tree lonely on a height
lives in winter cold day and night
a thirsty palm-tree weeps silent
tropical burning sands scorched
the solitary fir tree and palm-tree

never wedded can these two distanced trees be
one abides high on mountainside northern climes
one abides hot in burning sands eastern lands
a palm-tree planted bold in north dies winter cold
a fir-tree planted in desert east dies in heat hot arid
dreaming fir tree weeping palm-tree dream impossibilities

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