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the scattering of tall trees/ All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines/ Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches/ They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind/ Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf/ One by one objects are defined It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entranceStill, the profound change has e upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken/