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I: The forest rears on lifted arms / Its leafy dome whence verdurous light / Shakes through the shady depths and warms / Proud trunk and stealthy parasite, / There where those cruel coils enclasp / The trees they strangle in their grasp.
II: An old man creeps from out the woods, / Breaking the vine's entangling spell; / He thrids the jungle's solitudes / O'er bamboos rotting where they fell; / Slow down the tiger's path he wends / Where at the pool the jungle ends.