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H IS FOR HEDGE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: I CLIMB A TREE TO BRING THEM DOWN
Last Line: WAS WRIGGLING LIKE THE THINNEST WORM.
Subject(s): HEDGES;
I climb a tree to bring them down --
The yellow eyes of my black kitten;
The laurel hedge that's left behind --
Whose shoulders measure three feet wide --
Is swaying lightly in the wind.

But when I looked from my high place,
With my black kitten safely tucked
From danger, under my left arm --
I saw that laurel's thick, broad back
Was wriggling like the thinnest worm.



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