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some lives are like the cypress tree
Posted by: jack35 (---.bgk.bellsouth.net)
Date: July 17, 2021 10:56PM

need poem with this opening line


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Re: some lives are like the cypress tree
Posted by: Desi (Moderator)
Date: September 23, 2021 10:21AM

Can you give any more info? Some anthologies have the option to look for first lines, but having an idea about the period would help. It is not something famous as far as I can tell.


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Re: some lives are like the cypress tree
Posted by: lg (Moderator)
Date: November 26, 2021 01:35AM

This is as close as I could find:

"Rich people who are covetous are like the cypress-tree,--they may appeal well, but are fruitless; so rich persons have the means to be generous, yet some are not so, but they should consider they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it."

Joseph Hall (1574-1656)


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