Classic Poem

What says the wind to the waving trees?
What says the wave to the river?
What mean the sigh in the passing breeze?
Why do the rushes quiver?
Have you not heard the fainting cry?
Of the flowers that said "Goodbye, goodbye"?

List how the grave love moans and grieves
Under the woodland cover;
List to the drift of the falling leaves
List to the wail of the lover.
Have the rat caught the message heard
Already by wave and breeze and bird?

Come, come away to the river's bank,
Come in the early morning;
Come when the grass with dew is drink,
Then you will find the warming--
A hint in the kiss of the quidlening air
Of the secret that birds and breezes bear.