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Song
T.S. Eliot
When we came home across the hill
No leaves were fallen from the trees;
The gentle fingers of the breeze
Had torn no quivering cobweb down.
The hedgerow bloomed with flowers still,
No withered petals lay beneath;
But the wild roses in your wreath
Were faded, and the leaves were brown.
About this poem
“Song” was published in Vol. 83, No. 6, of The Harvard Advocate on May 24, 1907.
About T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot was born on Sept. 26, 1888, in St. Louis. His collections of poetry include “Prufrock and Other Observations” (The Egoist, Ltd., 1917) and “The Waste Land” (Horace Liveright, 1922). Eliot received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. He died on Jan. 4, 1965.
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