To winter's breeze;

Sweltered red,

Heel to head!

Unto me,

Perversity?

A stately beech:

In gentle speech:

Find a moral

In the laurel,)

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And our pelf,

Of yourself?

Conceals

Reveals:

Stain and scar;

As we are.

In trying hour,

In naked power,

But sinewy trees

To winter's breeze!"

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