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…showed last 75 words of 871 total…trees represent heaven, and the more he climbs the closer he is to reaching his dream. However, he does not want to reach heaven right this instant, so the bending of the tree would send him back down to earth, or reality. "But dipped its top and set me down again/ That would be good both going and coming." But he would be perfectly content with his life being a "swinger of birches." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**