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withstand long months of sleep- 

 less conflict, are in fact quite 

 admirably qualified. These 

 wrestlings do them good. Brown- 

 ing was right when he lets old 

 rabbi Ben Ezra say, 



" Then, welcome each rebuff 



That turns earth's smoothness rough 

 Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand. 



but go ' 



Be our joys three-parts pain ! 

 Strive, and hold cheap the strain: 

 Leam, nor account the pang: dare, 

 never grudge the throe !" 



The hue of the hacked, horny 

 rind of the cottonwood trunk 

 near its base is all but black. 

 Some I have seen which were 

 nothing less, while their branches 

 are light to whiteness, a green- 

 ish silver, in fact; but a lamp 

 light with gentle glow to the eyes 

 that love to linger on them, so 

 that as seen in winter across a 

 field they stand white as wearing 

 light as a garment, and make all 

 trees about them to appear as 





A WINTER COTTONWOOD 

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