1152. What Though the Green Leaf Grow? by Maybury Fleming. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1152. What Though the Green Leaf Grow?

By Maybury Fleming


WHAT though the green leaf grow?
’T will last a month and day;
In all sweet flowers that blow
Lurks Death, his slave Decay.

But if my lady smile	5
There is no Death at all;
The world is fair the while,—
What though the red leaf fall?