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INDIANA BEECH WOODS: MARCH, by                    
First Line: Against the gray of the distance
Last Line: A cardinal's song -- it is scarlet!
Subject(s): Beech Trees; March (month); Trees


Against the gray of the distance,
The trunks of the beeches are silver;
Silver their filagree branches,
Pendant and dripping with pearls --
Faint mauve pearls and soft smothered opals,
Smothered in silvery mist
That clings and caresses and veils them.
Silver's the clear wood brook;
Its slender song is silver.
But under the beeches is spread
A carpet of pink veined wind-flowers --
A carpet for Spring to dance on --
And out of the nearness shrills
A cardinal's song -- it is scarlet!





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