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The Well And The Tree

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The man that I praise,     Cries out the empty well,     Lives all his days     Where a hand on the bell     Can call the milch-cows     To the comfortable door of his house.     Who but an idiot would praise     Dry stones in a well?     The Man that I praise,     Cries out the leafless tree,     Has married and stays     By an old hearth, and he     On naught has set store     But children and dogs on the floor.     Who but an idiot would praise     A withered tree?

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