I saw a bride splendid in white garments I saw a woman with one hundred children The children plump and firm within her arms, But some fell down or strangers took and ate them
That fire, they said, was red as red as red as red as a fox, your lips, a cherry; that fire, they said spread and spread and spread, faster than a cheetah or a nasty rumour;
Five children clasping mittens could not hug the entire trunk. Whole hands could hide in the folds of its bark. James, the tallest boy in class, could sit on a root,