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Title: Under the Tree

Author: Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Release Date: March 26, 2007 [EBook #20909]

Language: English

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UNDER THE TREE

And over and over I tried to see
Some of us walking under the tree,

* * * * * * *

And how it looks when I am there.

From _On the Hill_

UNDER THE TREE

BY

ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS

NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH, INC. MCMXXII

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

TO MY FATHER

SIMPSON ROBERTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Certain of these poems have appeared in _The Atlantic Monthly_, _The
University Record_ (the University of Chicago), _Poetry, a Magazine of
Verse_, _Child Life_, and the _Phoenix_. The author thanks the editors
of these journals for the privilege of reprinting.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE SKY 1

THE CORNFIELD 3

MILKING TIME 4

IN MY PILLOW 6

MISS KATE-MARIE 8

THE WOODPECKER 10

THE STAR 11

THE BUTTERBEAN TENT 12

BIG BROTHER 14

MR. WELLS 15

DICK AND WILL 16

THE PILASTER 18

FIREFLY 19

LITTLE RAIN 20

THE PULPIT 22

ON THE HILL 24

AUTUMN 26

THE RABBIT 28

CRESCENT MOON 29

FATHER'S STORY 30

CHRISTMAS MORNING 32

PEOPLE GOING BY