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Mystic Trees

by Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper]

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SHE IS ONE

High, lone above all creatures thou dost stand,
Mary, as apple on the topmost bough,
The gatherers overlooked, somehow—
And yet not so:
Man could not reach thee, thou so high dost grow
Warm, gold for God's own Hand.