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Dancing with the morning light

Here again my Ginkgo tree...

 

To honour the Ginkgo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the following poem:

 

GINKGO BILOBA

 

The leaf of this Eastern tree

Which has been entrusted to my garden

Offers a feast of secret significance,

For the edification of the initiate.

 

Is it one living thing

That has become divided within itself?

Are these two who have chosen each other,

So that we know them as one?

 

I think I have found the right answer

To these questions;

Do my songs not make you feel

That I am both one and twain?

 

(J.W. v. Goethe)

 

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Uploaded on April 23, 2007
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