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LEAF AND SOUL by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: LET GO THE LIMB
Last Line: BOTH LEAF AND SOUL LET GO.
Subject(s): TREES;

LEAF
Let go the Limb?
My life in him
Alone is found.
Come night, come day,
'Tis here I stay
Above the sapless ground.

SOUL
Let go the warm
Lip-kindled form
And upward fiy?
Come joy, come pain,
I here remain,
Despite the yearning sky.
A sudden frost -- and lo!
Both Leaf and Soul let go.



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