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TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 7 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: REACH UP AND PLUCK A BRANCH, AND GIVE IT TO ME
Last Line: HOW MUCH IS LEFT BEHIND? I DO NOT KNOW.
Subject(s): OLIVE TREES AND OLIVES;
Reach up and pluck a branch, and give it me,
That I may hang it in my Northern room,
That I may find it there, and wake and see
-- Not you! not you! -- dead leaves and wintry gloom.

O senseless olives, wherefore should I take
Your leaves to balm a heart that can but ache?
Why should I take you hence, that can but show
How much is left behind? I do not know.



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