Song
loss
rhymed verse
melancholic
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.
Song - meaning Summary
Loss Within Preserved Landscape
The poem contrasts an outwardly unchanged, late-season landscape with a private sign of decline. The speaker returns across a hill to find trees and hedgerows still in bloom, but the addressee’s wreath and its roses are faded and brown. The scene presents nature’s apparent continuity against a personal loss or sorrow, implying that decline affects human bonds even when the wider world seems intact.
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