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“I have been to the woods, I have trod the green dell,
She danced in the aspen, she sighed in the gale,
Her mantle was thrown o’er the misty brake;
I felt her breath in the breezes of even,
Wherever I roved over vale, wood or hill,
Not a wildbriar rose Its fragrance breathed,
Not a violet opened its eyes of blue,
Not an ivy caressing the rock in the wall,
And I’ve been to the groves of Sequoia Big Trees,
Grand Temples of Nature for worship and ease,
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Photograph by Reichel. GRIZZLY GIANT, MARIPOSA GROVE. Height 224 feet; circumference of limb 100 feet from ground, 20 1/2 feet. |
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