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 stir the imagination in human beings there is nothing comparable with an old tree, especially if it reach down its roots, half-exposed, towards running water. (Observe the tree in ; and again the trees in Nos. 23, The Green Dragon, and 4, Goblin Thieves'', for different treatments of this theme.) If you remember, it was by such a tree that the youthful dreamer in Gray’s Elegy fed his wayward fancies:

As it was by such a tree (an oak, this time) that the melancholy Jaques meditated:

(I passed that very tree the other day,