Old plant of Asia - <br />Mutilated vine <br />Holding earth's leaping sap <br />In every stem and shoot <br />That lopped off, sprouts again - <br />Why should you seek a plateau walled about, <br />Whose garden is the world?<br /><br />Lola Ridge<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/palestine-6/
