Trees
"Trees," so he said and laid him lovingly At a great beech-tree's root, "are my best friends. Upon their love it seems my life depends. No dog or woman for me! Give me a tree! In winter saying, ' Courage! hold to me!' In spring, ' Look up! hope's here, and winter ends!' In summer, 'Come! here's peace that naught transcends In autumn, ' See! the dreams I bring to thee!' Why, I have loved a tree until for me It had a soul. And as the Greeks believed So I believe: that in each dwells a life, Lovely, ecstatic, that some man may see Take on material form, and, so perceived, Hold him for aye.... That's why I have no wife."
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