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From Alton Bay to Sandwich Dome	A
From Mad to Saco river	B
For patriarchs of the primal wood	C
We sought with vain endeavor	B
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And then we said 'The giants old	D
Are lost beyond retrieval	E
This pygmy growth the axe has spared	F
Is not the wood primeval	E
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'Look where we will o'er vale and hill	G
How idle are our searches	H
For broad girthed maples wide limbed oaks	I
Centennial pines and birches	I
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'Their tortured limbs the axe and saw	I
Have changed to beams and trestles	I
They rest in walls they float on seas	I
They rot in sunken vessels	I
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'This shorn and wasted mountain land	J
Of underbrush and boulder	B
Who thinks to see its full grown tree	K
Must live a century older '	-
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At last to us a woodland path	L
To open sunset leading	M
Revealed the Anakim of pines	I
Our wildest wish exceeding	M
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Alone the level sun before	N
Below the lake's green islands	I
Beyond in misty distance dim	O
The rugged Northern Highlands	I
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Dark Titan on his Sunset Hill	G
Of time and change defiant	P
How dwarfed the common woodland seemed	Q
Before the old time giant	P
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What marvel that in simpler days	I
Of the world's early childhood	C
Men crowned with garlands gifts and praise	I
Such monarchs of the wild wood	C
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That Tyrian maids with flower and song	R
Danced through the hill grove's spaces	I
And hoary bearded Druids found	S
In woods their holy places	I
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With somewhat of that Pagan awe	T
With Christian reverence blending	M
We saw our pine tree's mighty arms	I
Above our heads extending	M
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We heard his needles' mystic rune	U
Now rising and now dying	M
As erst Dodona's priestess heard	V
The oak leaves prophesying	M
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Was it the half unconscious moan	W
Of one apart and mateless	I
The weariness of unshared power	B
The loneliness of greatness	I
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O dawns and sunsets lend to him	O
Your beauty and your wonder	B
Blithe sparrow sing thy summer song	M
His solemn shadow under	B
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Play lightly on his slender keys	I
O wind of summer waking	M
For hills like these the sound of seas	I
On far off beaches breaking	M
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And let the eagle and the crow	X
Find shelter in his branches	I
When winds shake down his winter snow	X
In silver avalanches	I
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The brave are braver for their cheer	Y
The strongest need assurance	I
The sigh of longing makes not less	I
The lesson of endurance	I

John Greenleaf Whittier

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