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i am going to utter a tree, Nobody | |
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shall stop me | |
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but first | |
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earth , the reckless oral darkness | |
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raging with thin impulse |
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i will have | |
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a | |
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dream | |
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i | |
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think it shall be roses and |
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spring will bring her | |
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worms rushing through loam. | |
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(afterward i'll | |
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climb | |
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by tall careful muscles |
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into nervous and accurate silence . . . . But first | |
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you) | |
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press easily | |
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at first, it will be leaves | |
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and a little harder |
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for roses | |
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only a little harder | |
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last we | |
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on the groaning flame of neat huge | |
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trudging kiss moistly climbing hideously with |
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large | |
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minute | |
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hips, O | |
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.press | |
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worms rushing slowly through loam |
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