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| Laburnum and Copper Beech in Gordon Square |
The rain
fell steadily all night long, making a faint mist over the fields, chuckling
and burbling in the gutters. In gardens
it fell over flowering bushes of lilac and laburnum. It slipped gently over the leaden domes of
libraries, and splayed out of the laughing mouths of gargoyles. . . .
And in the garden of the Lodge outside Kitty's window it sluiced the
ancient tree under which Kings and poets had sat drinking three centuries ago,
but now it was half fallen and had to be propped up by a stake in the middle.
The
Years (59-60)
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| The "Alice" tree, Christ Church, Oxford |
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