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Trees

April 25, 2007 - 7:36am Submitted by Karl DeBisschop
  • Poem
by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

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