Let Us Go To The Rose

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose

Qui ce matin avait déclosé

Sa robe de poupre au soleil

A point perdu cette vêprée

Les plis de sa robe pourprée

Et son teint au vôtre pareil

Las! Voyez comme en peu d'espace

Mignonne, elle a dessus la place

Las! las! ses beautés laissé choir!

O vraiment marâtre est Nature

Puisqu'une telle fleur ne dure

Que du matin jusques au soir!

Donc, si vois me croyez, mignonne

Tandis que votre âge fleuronne

En sa plus verte nouveauté

Cueillez votre jeunesse:

Comme à cette fleur, la vieillesse

Fera ternir votre beauté

"The old willows wrecked again and again in the hold of the woods held

in close confinement all round into the struggle for existance where

the streams were constantly taken from their course by the roots of the

old trees in the woods allowing no mill stream the free course through

until the whole of these fine old trees had got their whole water

course directed by their own roots into each others roots in their own

devious ways & so each time the bad weather conditions came the dell of

the old popular willows received the whole rainfall & gave the roots of

the old popular trees the worst conditions they could not recover from.

The result was when the bad storms swept the ground downhill the whole

of the upright branches of the populars were wrecked & wrenched off as

none had sufficient root hold to do any good in holding as against the

winds forcing both root & trunks & branches to give way. The ultimate

result was as stated the cracking down of the branches & the breaking

off of the main trunk as it had no side branches to help its leaves to

support the whole tree. This gave the stubble growth of enforcing the

trunk low down near the ground to spray out the small side branches &

to develope in the trunk the further strength to enlarge the top of the

trunk to enable the heavy branch growth to develop & to give out a

large number of spray branches in all directions to keep control of the

wind and also to stop the wind from further to destroy the old trees in

its course the winds followed the well streams & then got the clear run

free of the trees until a run of heavy old tree trunks guided them out

again into the ground where the rising ground destroyed them by holding

them in face clear of the winds the night mist."