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...noble branches, their brown and fragrant shoots all fresh as if they were alive — majestic corpses, the slain of to-day ; The grove was like a field of...Ah ! here we are at the very scene of murder ; the verytree that they are felling ; they have just hewn round the trunk with those slaughtering axes,...

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...side, when sounds other than of nightingales burst on our ear, — the deep and frequent strokes of a woodman's axe, — and emerging from the Pinge we...requiem. Ah ! here we are at the very scene of murder, beside the very tree that they are felling ; they have just hewn round the trunk with those slaughtering...