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First Line: The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Last Line: And steer it a direction straight through space.
Subject(s): Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Throws down in front of us is not to bar
Our passage to our journey's end for good,
But just to ask us who we think we are

Insisting always on our own way so.
She likes to halt us in our runner tracks,
And make us get down in a foot of snow
Debating what to do without an ax.

And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:
We will not be put off the final goal
We have it hidden in us to attain,
Not though we have to seize by either pole

This aimless earth now circling in one place,
And steer it a direction straight through space.





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