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Birches

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Birches, blank‐verse lyric by Robert Frost, published in Mountain Interval (1916). The poet describes his boyhood pleasure in climbing birch trees, swinging from the tops until the supple trunks bent in a curve to the ground. He dreams of being again “a swinger of birches,” and finds in this occupation a symbol for his desired surcease from “considerations,” in which he mightgo by climbing a birch tree …
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.

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Betula

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

Betula (birches; family Betulaceae) A genus of fast-growing and light-demanding trees, some of which provide valuable, pale timber. Male flowers are borne in catkins, female flowers in clusters; and there is no perianth. The fruit is a small, winged nut. There are about 60 species, occurring in the northern temperate and Arctic regions.

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