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 Oh, leave this barren spot to me!
 Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree!  
 Oh, leave this barren spot to me!
 Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree! 
 Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
 No school of long experience, that the world
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 Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs
 No school of long experience, that the world
  Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen
   Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares,
    To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood
     And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade
      Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze
       That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm
        To thy sick heart. 
Some boundless contiguity of shade.
Some boundless contiguity of shade.
 I think that I shall never scan
 A tree as lovely as a man.
  . . . read more 
 I think that I shall never scan
 A tree as lovely as a man.
  . . . .
   A tree depicts divinest plan,
    But God himself lives in a man. 
 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. 
 Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
 [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume read more 
 Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
 [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel 
wachsen.] 
 It is not growing like a tree
 In bulk, doth make man better be;
  Or standing long read more 
 It is not growing like a tree
 In bulk, doth make man better be;
  Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
   To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
    A lily of a day
     Is fairer far in May,
      Although it falls and die that night--
       It was the plant and flower of Light. 
 As by the way of innuendo
 Lucus is made a non lucendo.  
 As by the way of innuendo
 Lucus is made a non lucendo. 
This is the forest primeval.
This is the forest primeval.