“The bud is on the bough again,
The leaf is on the tree.”
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher
The Meeting of Spring and Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.”
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Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless …" by A.E. Housman?
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