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Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow: What is the Shaft of Beauty, Towering High? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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What does he plant who plants a tree? a
He plants a friend of sun and sky;b
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high;
He plants a home to heaven anigh;
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard____
The treble of heaven's harmony_____
These things he plants who plants a tree.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:

What is the shaft of beauty, towering high?
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Solution

The small sapling grows into a tall and high arrow like tree which stands stately in beauty.

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Chapter 1.01: The Heart of the Tree - Stanza 1

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