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The cottage damson laden as could be / Scowls at the Manor House magnolia tree / That year by year within its thoughtless powers / Yields flowers and leaves and flowers and leaves and flowers, / While the Magnolia shudders as in fear, / "_Figurez-vous! _ two sackfuls every year! "