QUERCUS ALBA 



quered the great wilderness about; 

 civilization and its wonders have 

 developed as neither ever before 

 developed in the history of man; 

 nations have warred and lapsed 

 into peace; statesmen and scholars 

 have been born, have written of 

 their work on the page of fame, 

 and passed from the arena; yet of 

 it all the great Oak knows noth- 

 ing, cares nothing. Sufficient to 

 Quercus Alba, the veteran, is it 

 that summer suns come with the 



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