the oak

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Moss-Covered Plantation Trees, Charleston, South Carolina, USAArtist: Adam Jones
2008-03-22 02:36:39 GMTComments: 0 Permanent Link
an oak tree
An oak tree greening by the ocean;A golden chain about it wound:Whereon a learned cat, in motionBoth day and night, will walk around;On walking left, he tells a lay.A magic place: there wends his wayThe woodsprite, there's a mermaid sittingIn branches, there on trails past knowingAre tracks of beast you never met;On chicken feet a hut is setWith neither door nor window showing.There wood and dale with wonders teem;At dawn of day the breakers streamUpon the bare and barren lea,And thirty handsome armored heroesFile from the waters' shining mirrors,With them their Usher from the Sea.There glimpse a prince, and in his slave;Alot, before the people massing,Across the wood, across the wave,A warlock bears a warrior brave;See Baba-Yaga's mortar glideAll of itself, with her astride.There droops Kashey, on treasure bent;There's Russia's spirit... Russian scent!And there I stayed, and drank of mead;That oak tree greening by the shoreI sat beneath, and of his loreThe learned cat would chant and read.One tale of these I kept in mind,And tell it now to all my kind...
An Oak Tree Greening by Alexander Pushkin
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Oak Trees, Boone Hall Plantation, SCArtist: Mike Mcgovern