青青一树伤心色，曾入几人离恨中。 ~ 白居易 “青门柳”
I read this verse off a composition about "Learning the Departures of Life" in our Chinese Dailies, the 联合早报. Given my weak Chinese literature, the poem strike me as a beautifully sorrow poem about parting - i need source out its meaning online: -
The tree is the Willow, 柳树. Ancient men had a farewell custom of bending a stalk of its leaves; the action of such, sounds like and meant, "Don't wish you to go, but had to let you go." The great anguish shadows the greens of Willow in gloominess..
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