Poem: “The Apple Tree” by Edgar A. Guest

A Heap o’ Livin’

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’
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The Apple Tree

  When an apple tree is ready for the world to
    come and eat,
  There isn’t any structure in the land that’s
    “got it beat.”
  There’s nothing man has builded with the
    beauty or the charm
  That can touch the simple grandeur of the
    monarch of the farm.
  There’s never any picture from a human
    being’s brush
  That has ever caught the redness of a single apple’s blush.

  When an apple tree’s in blossom it is glorious
    to see,
  But that’s just a hint, at springtime, of the
    better things to be;
  That is just a fairy promise from the Great
    Magician’s wand
  Of the wonders and the splendors that are
    waiting just beyond
  The distant edge of summer; just a forecast
    of the treat
  When the apple tree is ready for the world
    to come and eat.

  Architects of splendid vision long have labored
    on the earth,
  And have raised their dreams in marble and
     we’ve marveled at their worth;
  Long the spires of costly churches have looked
     upward at the sky;
  Rich in promise and in the beauty, they have
     cheered the passer-by.
  But I’m sure there’s nothing finer for the eye
     of man to meet
  Than an apple tree that’s ready for the world
     to come and eat.

  There’s the promise of the apples, red and
     gleaming in the sun,
  Like the medals worn by mortals as rewards
     for labors done;
  And the big arms stretched wide open, with a
     welcome warm and true
  In a way that sets you thinking it’s intended
     just for you.
  There is nothing with a beauty so entrancing,
     so complete,
  As an apple tree that’s ready for the world to
     come and eat.

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