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Trees

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"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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