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Nay, rather I'll say: "I am a nut in the hard and frozen ground;

Above is the damp and frozen air, the cold blue sky all round;

And the power of a leafy and branchy tree is in me crushed and bound

Till the summer come and set it free from the grave-clothes

in which it is wound!"

The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 · 第 97 / 133 题