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VI.

Homeward

The sheer gray leaves giddily waver
At the top of the nude trunk.
They are wrinkled and decrepit,
But their tremulous, palpitating eagerness
Exceeds youth's . . .
They are about to return
To the last soothing clasp
Of mother earth.

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