<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:dea2f32c-88b5-480f-96f9-3030971205dd" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><a id="p16"/> <h1 class="chaptertitle poemtitle">At Three Rivers, April ’80</h1> <blockquote> <p class="left ">A tree that blossoms in the wilderness<br/> in some April beyond history<br/> and farther west than all the pioneers<br/> is in no way less<br/> though there be none to bless<br/> and no woman stand in tears<br/> under the whitening flowers.</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="left ">Only the tears were ours.</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>