A Green Sprig lyrics

There upon the ground

Lies a green sprig of fir

That keeps its colour still

And resembles its origin

Stood up, look close and see

There stands a little tree

With the pomp of arbory

And its rootless majesty

Pushed to the earth gently

And near pebbles like stones

A vivarium kept unrestricted

Reflections of wooded grandeur

All this in the recent loss of life

Its cycle pinned to the earth

Plucked from celestial blue

Cast down below, yet evergreen

So then to live on factitiously

In an artificial panorama petite

Until earthen tones take thee

And rusticate this green bit