optimisticDown from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high,
Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark,
That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but the future.
- selected lines from Song of the Redwood-Tree by Walt Whitman
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