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 I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have 
to live than other things do.  
 I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have 
to live than other things do. 
 It was the noise
 Of ancient trees falling while all was still
  Before the storm, in the read more 
 It was the noise
 Of ancient trees falling while all was still
  Before the storm, in the long interval
   Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze
    Which Germans call the Wind's bride. 
This is the forest primeval.
This is the forest primeval.
 Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the 
tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: read more 
 Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the 
tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by 
his fruit. 
 As by the way of innuendo
 Lucus is made a non lucendo.  
 As by the way of innuendo
 Lucus is made a non lucendo. 
 On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the 
banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. read more 
 On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the 
banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun 
of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across 
the river, and the trees took the river in their arms. 
 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like 
a green bay tree.  
 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like 
a green bay tree. 
 The place is all awave with trees,
 Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
  Acacias having drunk the lees
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 The place is all awave with trees,
 Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
  Acacias having drunk the lees
   Of the night-dew, fain headed,
    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem
     The fittest foliage for a dream. 
Some boundless contiguity of shade.
Some boundless contiguity of shade.