6 Read the excerpt from Birches by Robert Frost When I see

Last updated: 5/4/2023

6 Read the excerpt from Birches by Robert Frost When I see birches bend to left and right Across the line of straighter darker trees I like to think some boy s been swinging them But swinging doesn t bend them down to stay Ice storms do that Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain They click upon themselves As the breeze rises and turn many colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel Soon the sun s warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow crust Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen Which lines describe the ice wrapping the tree branches OAs the breeze rises and turn many colored 10