The Little Willow

The little willow if an interesting story of love that remained unfulfilled. 

It tells the spiritual bond between tow persons. 

The writer wants to show that the real love is not a blind kind of romantic attraction between and young man and a pretty young girl based on physical charm. A true love is a sacred spiritual relation between two persons based on similarly of temperaments. 

There are three sisters belonging to the English family called Avery. The two elder sisters, Charlotte and Brenda were tall and graceful girls. They were very expert in the art of seducing young men. 

But their younger sister Lisby was noble, straightforward, modest and unassuming. One day Simon Byrne came to the court House. Both Simon Byrne and Lisby fall in love with each other, Lisby never displayed her love to Simon Byrne. 

Lisby’s love was quiet calm and secret for Simon Byrne. Both did not express their love to each other face. At Simon Byrne departure, Lisby gave him “The Little Willow” tree as a gift. After this Simon Byrne went to the war front and was fatally wounded by a blast. 

He died in the hospital. Before his death, he told Caption Oliver that he loved the girl who gave him “The little willow tree”. 

When Lisby listen the bad news, she begins to weep and admits her love for him by saying that “he was my dear, dear love”.