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1886–1950

A Picnic Under the Cherry Trees

John Gould Fletcher

The boat drifts to rest Under the outward spraying branches. There is faint sound of quavering strings, The reedy murmurs of a flute,

The soft sigh of the wind through silken garments; All these are mingled With the breeze that drifts away, Filled with thin petals of cherry blossom,

Like tinkling laughter dancing away in sunlight.

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