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Wet winds that flap the sodden leaves! / Wet leaves that drop and fall! / Unhappy, leafless trees the wind bereaves! / Poor trees and small!
All of a color, solemn in your green; / All of a color, sombre in your brown; / All of a color, dripping gray between / When leaves are down!
O for the bronze-green eucalyptus spires / Far-flashing up against the endless blue! / Shifting and glancing in the steady fires / Of sun and moonlight too.
Dark orange groves! Pomegranate hedges bright, / And varnished fringes of the pepper trees! / And O that wind of sunshine! Wind of light! / Wind of Pacific seas!