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THREE WOOD SONGS: 1. TO A DOGWOOD IN SUMMER by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY

First Line: THEY TELL ME THAT ESSENTIAL YOU
Last Line: YOUR MOONLIGHT AND YOUR SNOW.
Subject(s): DOGWOOD; SNOW; SUMMER; TREES;
They tell me that essential you
Is just essential me --
Electrons shifting, you'd be man
And I a twinkling tree.

That could have happened easily
Odd twenty years ago,
But you, to match me, must have worn
Your moonlight and your snow.



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