QUERCUS ALBA 



larly senile, the group fell as they 

 had lived, together, under the re- 

 lentless mandate of Nature, who 

 respects not age if it be useless, 

 and enforces her sentence by the 

 medium of the unusual. Prostrate, 

 their great trunks twisted and torn 

 by the impact of the fall, their 

 withered leaves dropping like rain 

 with every passing breeze, their 

 tale was told. Like human beings, 

 from earth they had come, and 

 similarly to earth they were re- 



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