English Oak

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“The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)