Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

John Burnham Schwartz
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The cherry trees in the palace gardens were wilting and dying. The trees in the garden seemed to be withering and dying, and were no longer beautiful - just like the people lived in the palace. It was sad to see them wither and die without hope of resurrection, because they were all old and had come to an end.

Source: The Commoner

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