| Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
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| Qui ce matin avait dclos
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| Sa robe de poupre au soleil
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| A point perdu cette vpre
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| Les plis de sa robe pourpre
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| Et son teint au vtre pareil
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| Las! |
| Voyez comme en peu d’espace
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| Mignonne, elle a dessus la place
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| Las! |
| Las! |
| Ses beauts laiss choir!
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| O vraiment martre est Nature
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| Puisqu’une telle fleur ne dure
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| Que du matin jusques au soir!
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| Donc, si vois me croyez, mignonne
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| Tandis que votre ge fleuronne
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| En sa plus verte nouveaut
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| Cueillez votre jeunesse:
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| Comme cette fleur, la vieillesse
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| Fera ternir votre beaut
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| «The old willows wrecked again and again in the hold of the woods held
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| In close confinement all round into the struggle for existance where
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| The streams were constantly taken from their course by the roots of the
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| Old trees in the woods allowing no mill stream the free course through
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| Until the whole of these fine old trees had got their whole water
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| Course directed by their own roots into each others roots in their own
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| Devious ways & so each time the bad weather conditions came the dell of
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| The old popular willows received the whole rainfall & gave the roots of
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| The old popular trees the worst conditions they could not recover from
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| The result was when the bad storms swept the ground downhill the whole
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| Of the upright branches of the populars were wrecked & wrenched off as
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| None had sufficient root hold to do any good in holding as against the
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| Winds forcing both root & trunks & branches to give way. |
| The ultimate
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| Result was as stated the cracking down of the branches & the breaking
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| Off of the main trunk as it had no side branches to help it’s leaves to
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| Support the whole tree. |
| This gave the stubble growth of enforcing the
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| Trunk low down near the ground to spray out the small side branches &
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| To develope in the trunk the further strength to enlarge the top of the
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| Trunk to enable the heavy branch growth to develop & to give out a
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| Large number of spray branches in all directions to keep control of the
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| Wind and also to stop the wind from further to destroy the old trees in
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| It’s course the winds followed the well streams & then got the clear run
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| Free of the trees until a run of heavy old tree trunks guided them out
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| Again into the ground where the rising ground destroyed them by holding
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| Them in face clear of the winds the night mist. |
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