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  But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree....
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  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
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• When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.
  She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light....