Lesya Ukrainka — The Pine Tree
Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) was a writer and poet most famous for her play Forest Song. She struggled with tuberculosis throughout her life but left an impressive body of work.
The Pine Tree written by Lesya Ukrainka
The pine-tree said to the spring breeze
The ever-green pine
There I went and listened to everything
Everything she said.
Oh, she didn’t sing ‘the green din’
The ever-clouded pine
No, not the ‘green din’
A heavy winter thought was heard through all the noise.
On a winter morning, the oak-tree was silent
As though stricken with sorrow
The evergreen tree only whispered
To the dense high canopy
There I went and listened to everything
To everything she said
It is not a merry thought.
That was heard in the noise of the ‘green din’.
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