The Palm and the Pine

The Palm and the Pine
From the German of Heine.

In the far North stands a Pine-tree, lone,

Upon a wintry height;

It sleeps: around it snows have thrown

A covering of white.

It dreams forever of a Palm

That, far i' the Morning-land,

Stands silent in a most sad calm

Midst of the burning sand.

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Point Lookout Prison, 1864.

-THE END-
Sidney Lanier's poem: The Palm and the Pine

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