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...much this tradition had by the century's end become part of a poet's sense of his nation's history: While thus through all the stages thou hast push'd...tree-ship, first a seedling hid in grass, Then twig, then saplin, and as century rolled Slow after century, a giant hulk Of girth enormous with moss-cushion'd...

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...gaze upon its gigantic form, is now, a shattered veteran, dry, prostrate, dead : Thou hast outlived Thy popularity, and art become (Unless verse rescue...awhile) a thing Forgotten, as the foliage of thy youth. The history of celebrated trees is generally involved in obscurity, because no particular attention...