City Trees
by
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)


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The trees this city street,
for the traffic and the trains,
Would make a sound as thin and sweet
As trees in .

And people standing in
a ,
Would hear as is made
Upon a country tree.

Oh, little leaves that are so
Against the city air,
I watch you when the wind has come --
I know what sound is there.