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I	A
WHEN the pine tosses its cones	B
To the song of its waterfall tones	B
Who speeds to the woodland walks	C
To birds and trees who talks	C
C sar of his leafy Rome	D
There the poet is at home	D
He goes to the river side	E
Not hook nor line hath he	F
He stands in the meadows wide	E
Nor gun nor scythe to see	F
Sure some god his eye enchants	F
What he knows nobody wants	F
In the wood he travels glad	G
Without better fortune had	G
Melancholy without bad	G
Knowledge this man prizes best	H
Seems fantastic to the rest	H
Pondering shadows colors clouds	F
Grass buds and caterpillar shrouds	F
Boughs on which the wild bees settle	I
Tints that spot the violet's petal	I
Why Nature loves the number five	J
And why the star form she repeats	F
Lover of all things alive	J
Wonderer at all he meets	F
Wonderer chiefly at himself	K
Who can tell him what he is	F
Or how meet in human elf	K
Coming and past eternities	F
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And such I knew a forest seer	L
A minstrel of the natural year	M
Foreteller of the vernal ides	F
Wise harbinger of spheres and tides	F
A lover true who knew by heart	N
Each joy the mountain dales impart	N
It seemed that Nature could not raise	F
A plant in any secret place	F
In quaking bog on snowy hill	O
Beneath the grass that shades the rill	O
Under the snow between the rocks	F
In damp fields known to bird and fox	F
But he would come in the very hour	P
It opened in its virgin bower	P
As if a sunbeam showed the place	F
And tell its long descended race	F
It seemed as if the breezes brought him	Q
It seemed as if the sparrows taught him	Q
As if by secret sight he knew	R
Where in far fields the orchis grew	R
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Many haps fall in the field	S
Seldom seen by wishful eyes	F
But all her shows did Nature yield	S
To please and win this pilgrim wise	F
He saw the partridge drum in the woods	F
He heard the woodcock's evening hymn	Q
He found the tawny thrushes' broods	F
And the shy hawk did wait for him	Q
What others did at distance hear	L
And guessed within the thicket's gloom	T
Was shown to this philosopher	P
And at his bidding seemed to come	U
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In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers' gang	V
Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang	V
He trod the unplanted forest floor whereon	Q
The all seeing sun for ages hath not shone	Q
Where feeds the moose and walks the surly bear	W
And up the tall mast runs the woodpecker	P
He saw beneath dim aisles in odorous beds	F
The slight Linn a hang its twin born heads	F
And blessed the monument of the man of flowers	F
Which breathes his sweet fame'through the northern bowers	F
He heard when in the grove at intervals	F
With sudden roar the aged pine tree falls	F
One crash the death hymn of the perfect tree	F
Declares the close of its green century	F
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Low lies the plant to whose creation went	X
Sweet influence from every element	Y
Whose living towers the years conspired to build	Z
Whose giddy top the morning loved to gild	Z
Through these green tents by eldest Nature dressed	H
He roamed content alike with man and beast	A2
Where darkness found him he lay glad at night	B2
There the red morning touched him with its light	B2
Three moons his great heart him a hermit made	C2
So long he roved at will the boundless shade	C2
The timid it concerns to ask their way	D2
And fear what foe in caves and swamps can stray	D2
To make no step until the event is known	Q
And ills to come as evils past bemoan	Q
Not so the wise no coward watch he keeps	F
To spy what danger on his pathway creeps	F
Go where he will the wise man is at home	D
His hearth the earth his hall the azure dome	D
Where his clear spirit leads him there's his road	E2
By God's own light illumined and foreshowed	E2
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'T was one of the charm d days	F
When the genius of God doth flow	F2
The wind may alter twenty ways	F
A tempest cannot blow	F2
It may blow north it still is warm	G2
Or south it still is clear	M
Or east it smells like a clover farm	H2
Or west no thunder fear	M
The musing peasant lowly great	E2
Beside the forest water sate	E2
The rope like pine roots crosswise grown	Q
Composed the network of his throne	Q
The wide lake edged with sand and grass	F
Was burnished to a floor of glass	F
Painted with shadows green and proud	E2
Of the tree and of the cloud	E2
He was the heart of all the scene	Q
On him the sun looked more serene	Q
To hill and cloud his face was known	Q
It seemed the likeness of their own	Q
They knew by secret sympathy	F
The public child of earth and sky	A
'You ask ' he said 'what guide	E2
Me through trackless thickets led	E2
Through thick stemmed woodlands rough and wide	E2
I found the water's bed	E2
The watercourses were my guide	E2
I travelled grateful by their side	E2
Or through their channel dry	A
They led me through the thicket damp	I2
Through brake and fern the beavers' camp	I2
Through beds of granite cut my road	E2
And their resistless friendship showed	E2
The falling waters led me	F
The foodful waters fed me	F
And brought me to the lowest land	E2
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Unerring to the ocean sand	E2
The moss upon the forest bark	J2
Was pole star when the night was dark	J2
The purple berries in the wood	E2
Supplied me necessary food	E2
For Nature ever faithful is	F
To such as trust her faithfulness	F
When the forest shall mislead me	F
When the night and morning lie	A
When sea and land refuse to feed me	F
'T will be time enough to die	A
Then will yet my mother yield	E2
A pillow in her greenest field	E2
Nor the June flowers scorn to cover	P
The clay of their departed lover '	-
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II	A
As sunbeams stream through liberal space	F
And nothing jostle or displace	F
So waved the pine tree through my thought	E2
And fanned the dreams it never brought	E2
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'Whether is better the gift or the donor	P
Come to me '	-
Quoth the pine tree	F
'I am the giver of honor	P
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My garden is the cloven rock	K2
And my manure the snow	F2
And drifting sand heaps feed my stock	K2
In summer's scorching glow	F2
He is great who can live by me	F
The rough and bearded forester	P
Is better than the lord	E2
God fills the scrip and canister	P
Sin piles the loaded board	E2
The lord is the peasant that was	F
The peasant the lord that shall be	F
The lord is hay the peasant grass	F
One dry and one the living tree	F
Who liveth by the ragged pine	Q
Foundeth a heroic line	Q
Who liveth in the palace hall	L2
Waneth fast and spendeth all	L2
He goes to my savage haunts	F
With his chariot and his care	W
My twilight realm he disenchants	F
And finds his prison there	W
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'What prizes the town and the tower	P
Only what the pine tree yields	F
Sinew that subdued the fields	F
The wild eyed boy who in the woods	F
Chants his hymn to hills and floods	F
Whom the city's poisoning spleen	Q
Made not pale or fat or lean	Q
Whom the rain and the wind purgeth	F
Whom the dawn and the day star urgeth	F
In whose cheek the rose leaf blusheth	F
In whose feet the lion rusheth	F
Iron arms and iron mould	E2
That know not fear fatigue or cold	E2
I give my rafters to his boat	E2
My billets to his boiler's throat	E2
And I will swim the ancient sea	F
To float my child to victory	F
And grant to dwellers with the pine	Q
Dominion o'er the palm and vine	Q
Who leaves the pine tree leaves his friend	E2
Unnerves his strength invites his end	E2
Cut a bough from my parent stem	M2
And dip it in thy porcelain vase	F
A little while each russet gem	M2
Will swell and rise with wonted grace	F
But when it seeks enlarged supplies	F
The orphan of the forest dies	F
Whoso walks in solitude	E2
And inhabiteth the wood	E2
Choosing light wave rock and bird	E2
Before the money loving herd	E2
Into that forester shall pass	F
From these companions power and grace	F
Clean shall he be without within	Q
From the old adhering sin	Q
All ill dissolving in the light	E2
Of his triumphant piercing sight	E2
Not vain sour nor frivolous	F
Not mad athirst nor garrulous	F
Grave chaste contented though retired	E2
And of all other men desired	E2
On him the light of star and moon	Q
Shall fall with purer radiance down	Q
All constellations of the sky	A
Shed their virtue through his eye	A
Him Nature giveth for defence	F
His formidable innocence	F
The mounting sap the shells the sea	F
All spheres all stones his helpers be	F
He shall meet the speeding year	M
Without wailing without fear	M
He shall be happy in his love	N2
Like to like shall joyful prove	O2
He s	F