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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner was born on December 6, 1893 and grew up in Harrow, England, an only child. Her father, George Townsend Warner, taught history at Harrow School, and she was tutored by him as well as various other

Tree Unleaved, The

by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)

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Day after day melts by, so hushed is the season,

So crystal the mornings are, the evenings so wrapped in haze

That we do not notice the passage of the days;

But coming in at the gate to-night I looked up for some reason,

And saw overhead Time's theft;

For behold, not a leaf was left on the tree near by.

So it may chance, the passage of days abetting
My heedless assumption of life my hands so careless to hold,
That glancing round I shall find myself grown old,

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