Autumn,
The oak tree,
And the falling of thousands of babies
From the great green womb
Down, on the dark, solid pavement.
It is a town,
Not the blessed cradle
Of an affectionate forest:
The trodden corpses
Of the baby-oaks
Are left in the field of massacre.
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