Songs About Life and Brighter Things Yet XXXIII
The apple grows so bright and high, And ends its days in apple pie.
Samuel Hoffenstein
The apple grows so bright and high, And ends its days in apple pie.
An apple grows “bright and high” — vivid, ripe, almost proud — and then its whole story ends in an apple pie. The speaker doesn’t sound sad about this; the tone is more like a knowing wink.
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