The Fairy Tree of Domremy
The Fairy Tree of Domremy - meaning Summary
Childhood Consolation and Memory
This short lyric addresses the Arbre Fée de Bourlemont as a living emblem of childhood consolation and communal memory. The poem says children’s tears and love feed and renew the tree: sorrow becomes leaves and affection keeps it youthful across centuries. The speaker urges the tree to remain green in their hearts so that even in exile or old age its image restores youth and offers comfort when they long for home.
Read Complete AnalysesNow what has kept your leaves so green, Arbre Fee de Bourlemont? The children's tears! They brought each grief, And you did comfort them and cheer Their bruised hearts, and steal a tear That, healed, rose a leaf. And what has built you up so strong, Arbre Fee de Bourlemont? The children's love! They've loved you long Ten hundred years, in sooth, They've nourished you with praise and song, And warmed your heart and kept it young— A thousand years of youth! Bide always green in our young hearts, Arbre Fee de Bourlemont! And we shall always youthful be, Not heeding Time his flight; And when, in exile wand'ring, we Shall fainting yearn for glimpse of thee, Oh, rise upon our sight!
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