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All day the trees were moaning / For the leaves that they had lost, / All day they creaked and trembled, / And the naked branches tossed / And shivered in the north wind / As he hurried up and down. / Over hill-tops bleak and cheerless, / Over meadows bare and brown.
"Oh, my green and tender leaflets. / Oh, my fair buds, lost and gone! " / So, they moaned through all the daytime, / So, they groaned till night came on. / And the hoar-frost lurked and listened / To the wailing, sad refrain, / And he whispered, "wait -- be patient -- / I will cover you again;