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IT was not many centuries since	A
When gathered on the moonlit green	B
Beneath the Tree of Liberty	C
A ring of weeping sprites was seen	B
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The freshman's lamp had long been dim	D
The voice of busy day was mute	E
And tortured Melody had ceased	F
Her sufferings on the evening flute	E
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They met not as they once had met	G
To laugh o'er many a jocund tale	H
But every pulse was beating low	I
And every cheek was cold and pale	H
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There rose a fair but faded one	J
Who oft had cheered them with her song	K
She waved a mutilated arm	L
And silence held the listening throng	K
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'Sweet friends ' the gentle nymph began	M
'From opening bud to withering leaf	N
One common lot has bound us all	O
In every change of joy and grief	N
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'While all around has felt decay	P
We rose in ever living prime	Q
With broader shade and fresher green	B
Beneath the crumbling step of Time	Q
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'When often by our feet has past	R
Some biped Nature's walking whim	D
Say have we trimmed one awkward shape	S
Or lopped away one crooked limb	D
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'Go on fair Science soon to thee	C
Shall Nature yield her idle boast	T
Her vulgar fingers formed a tree	C
But thou halt trained it to a post	T
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'Go paint the birch's silver rind	U
And quilt the peach with softer down	V
Up with the willow's trailing threads	W
Off with the sunflower's radiant crown	V
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'Go plant the lily on the shore	X
And set the rose among the waves	Y
And bid the tropic bud unbind	U
Its silken zone in arctic caves	Y
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'Bring bellows for the panting winds	Z
Hang up a lantern by the moon	A2
And give the nightingale a fife	B2
And lend the eagle a balloon	A2
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'I cannot smile the tide of scorn	C2
That rolled through every bleeding vein	D2
Comes kindling fiercer as it flows	E2
Back to its burning source again	F2
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'Again in every quivering leaf	N
That moment's agony I feel	G2
When limbs that spurned the northern blast	U
Shrunk from the sacrilegious steel	G2
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'A curse upon the wretch who dared	U
To crop us with his felon saw	H2
May every fruit his lip shall taste	U
Lie like a bullet in his maw	H2
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'In every julep that he drinks	I2
May gout and bile and headache be	C
And when he strives to calm his pain	D2
May colic mingle with his tea	C
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'May nightshade cluster round his path	J2
And thistles shoot and brambles cling	K2
May blistering ivy scorch his veins	L2
And dogwood burn and nettles sting	K2
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'On him may never shadow fall	O
When fever racks his throbbing brow	M2
And his last shilling buy a rope	N2
To hang him on my highest bough '	-
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She spoke the morning's herald beam	O2
Sprang from the bosom of the sea	C
And every mangled sprite returned	U
In sadness to her wounded tree	C

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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