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KIND by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER

First Line: THE CLOSE GREEN HEDGE, AS TABLE SET
Last Line: "BUT I WAS OAK"" AND ""I WAS BEECH."
Subject(s): EARTH; NATURE; WORLD;
The close green hedge, as table set
With gold, has caught the pointed leaves;
The beech and linden now are met,
Their mingled color earth receives.

But in the twilight's rolling mist,
When kindled fires through low mounds reach,
The glowing skeletons insist
"But I was oak" and "I was beech."



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