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  • Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.

    Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.141, University of Georgia Press