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What does it mean?
The wind looks for flowers that are already gone by the stream.
In plain terms
The wind searches for flowers that have already faded.
What can you take from it?
Notice how loss lingers in nature.

Where it applies

  • grief
  • nature walks
  • reflection

Putting it to work

  • notice absence
  • reflect on loss
  • observe nature

Questions to consider

  • What do you search for?
  • How does nature reflect loss?

Another view

The wind cannot actually search or feel loss.

More from William Cullen Bryant

  1. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

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  2. Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!

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  3. Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.

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