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Where the Long Shadows Fall Lyrics

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose

Qui ce matin avait dйclosй

Sa robe de poupre au soleil

A point perdu cette vкprйe

Les plis de sa robe pourprйe

Et son teint au vфtre pareil

Las! Voyez comme en peu d'espace

Mignonne, elle a dessus la place

Las! las! ses beautйs laissй choir!

O vraiment marвtre est Nature

Puisqu'une telle fleur ne dure

Que du matin jusques au soir!

Donc, si vois me croyez, mignonne

Tandis que votre вge fleuronne

En sa plus verte nouveautй

Cueillez votre jeunesse:

Comme а cette fleur, la vieillesse

Fera ternir votre beautй

"The old willows wrecked again and again in the hold of the woods held

 in close confinement all round into the struggle for existance where

 the streams were constantly taken from their course by the roots of the

 old trees in the woods allowing no mill stream the free course through

 until the whole of these fine old trees had got their whole water

 course directed by their own roots into each others roots in their own

 devious ways & so each time the bad weather conditions came the dell of

 the old popular willows received the whole rainfall & gave the roots of

 the old popular trees the worst conditions they could not recover from.

 The result was when the bad storms swept the ground downhill the whole

 of the upright branches of the populars were wrecked & wrenched off as

 none had sufficient root hold to do any good in holding as against the

 winds forcing both root & trunks & branches to give way. The ultimate

 result was as stated the cracking down of the branches & the breaking

 off of the main trunk as it had no side branches to help its leaves to

 support the whole tree. This gave the stubble growth of enforcing the

 trunk low down near the ground to spray out the small side branches &

 to develope in the trunk the further strength to enlarge the top of the

 trunk to enable the heavy branch growth to develop & to give out a

 large number of spray branches in all directions to keep control of the

 wind and also to stop the wind from further to destroy the old trees in

 its course the winds followed the well streams & then got the clear run

 free of the trees until a run of heavy old tree trunks guided them out

 again into the ground where the rising ground destroyed them by holding

 them in face clear of the winds the night mist."