QUERCUS ALBA 



man, before the first branches di- 

 verge. Calm with the passionless 

 philosophy of age, in knowledge 

 of long past battles fought and 

 won, he looks out over the sur- 

 rounding valley of the rolling 

 Ozarks, out and out where green 

 and green alone stretches to the 

 horizon, free above the heads of 

 his lesser brothers. Since the 

 time when, a tiny seedling, he 

 sprang up beside the parent stump 

 a new nation has arisen and con- 



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