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I saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing

1. I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
2. All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;
3. Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
4. And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;
5. But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not;
6. And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
7. And brought it away—and I have placed it in sight in my room;
8. It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
9. (For I believe lately I think of little else than of them;)
10. Yet it remains to me a curious token—it makes me think of manly love;
11. For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space,
12. Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near,
13. I know very well I could not.