The Trees' Reflection In The Misty Stream

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The trees' reflection in the misty stream
  Dies off in livid steam;
Whilst up among the actual boughs, forlorn,
  The tender wood-doves mourn.

How wan the face, O traveller, this wan
  Gray landscape looked upon;
And how forlornly in the high tree-tops
  Lamented thy drowned hopes!

© Paul Verlaine