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Through the pale green forest of tall bracken-stalks,     Whose interwoven fronds, a jade-green sky,     Above me glimmer, infinitely high,     Towards my giant hand a beetle walks     In glistening emerald mail; and as I lie     Watching his progress through huge grassy blades     And over pebble boulders, my own world fades     And shrinks to the vision of a beetle's eye.     Within that forest world of twilight green     Ambushed with unknown perils, one endless day     I travel down the beetle-trail between     Huge glossy boles through green infinity ...     Till flashes a glimpse of blue sea through the bracken asway,     And my world is again a tumult of windy sea.

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