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at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to 

 new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter 

 on high! They teach us how to die. One wonders if 

 the time will ever come when men, with their boasted 

 faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and 

 as ripe. 



Excursions, 269, 270. 



