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Philosopher, What luck to have the tree in your street, Your thoughts will be less arduous, your eyes Freer, your hands more desirous of less night. - Yves Bonnefoy, from The Anchor's Long Chain, pg. 79.

The Tree on the Rue Descartes Passerby, Look at this tall tree, look through it, It may suffice. For even in tatters, soiled, a street tree It is all of nature, the whole sky, Birds perch in it, in it wind moves, the sun Speaks of the same hope, in spite of death...