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"[Lines on Beech Trees]"

"[Lines on Beech Trees]"


1 And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate
2 In murmuring sounds the dark decrees of fate;
3 While visions, as poetic eyes avow,
4 Cling to each leaf and swarm on every bough:

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5 —the tim'rous hare, and sportive squirrel
6 Gambol around me—

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