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Dispossessed

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Tender and tremulous green of leaves     Turned up by the wind,     Twanging among the vines -     Wind in the grass     Blowing a clear path     For the new-stripped soul to pass...     The naked soul in the sunlight...     Like a wisp of smoke in the sunlight     On the hill-side shimmering.     Dance light on the wind, little soul,     Like a thistle-down floating     Over the butterflies     And the lumbering bees...     Come away from that tree     And its shadow grey as a stone...     Bathe in the pools of light     On the hillside shimmering -     Shining and wetted and warm in the sun-spray falling like golden rain -     But do not linger and look     At that bleak thing under the tree.

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