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First Line: As some vast tropic tree, itself a wood
Last Line: Broods o'er the rude idolatry beneath. --
Variant Title(s): The Tropic Tree
Subject(s): Trees


As some vast tropic Tree, itself a Wood,
That crests its Head with clouds, beneath the flood
Feeds its deep roots, and with the bulging flank
Of its wide Base controlls the fronting bank,
(By the slant current's pressure scoop'd away
The fronting Bank becomes a foam-piled Bay)
High in its Fork the uncouth Idol knits
His channel'd Brows: low murmurs stir by fits:
And dark below the horrid Faquir sits;
An Horror from its broad Head's branching Wreath
Broods o'er the rude Idolatry beneath. --





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