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1886–1950

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John Gould Fletcher

The trees, like great jade elephants, Chained, stamp and shake‘ neath the gadflies of the breeze The trees lunge and plunge, unruly elephants: The clouds are their crimson howdah-canopies,

The sunlight glints like the golden robe of a Shah. Would I were tossed on the wrinkled backs of those trees

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