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GREEN LEAVES

Of unhedged stem and unclipped leaf,Over the earth in triumph running,Glowing green victory. Man seesThe gradual surge, and builds him poorOases of brick and stone and plaster—But in the end the green is master.And when man's hand has lost its cunning,In some unguessed untimed disaster,He shall lie and see the slow sereneOnward march of the army of green—See soil and sky, and nothing betweenBut the endless sweep of the joyous green.

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