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place to new-rising forests; — the last of that stirp, 

 sole survivor of that family. Little did the dusky 

 children think that the puny slip with its two eyes 

 only, which they stuck in the ground in the shadow 

 of the house and daily watered, would root itself so, 

 and outlive them, and house itself in the rear that 

 shaded it, and grown man's garden and orchard, 

 and tell their story faintly to the lone wanderer a 

 half -century after they had grown up and died, — 

 blossoming as fair, and smelling as sweet, as in that 

 first spring. I mark its still tender, civil, cheerful, 

 lilac colors. 



Walden, 290. 



