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Gardening

elleng

(136,839 posts) Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:33 PM Sep 2017

Take the fruit I give you, says the bending tree;

Nothing but a burden is it all to me.
Lighten ye my branches, let them toss in air.
Only leave me freedom, next year's load to bear.

–Lucy Larcom (1824–93)

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