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If I loved thee

I would absolutely not like that trumpet creeper

Winds upon but keeps flaunting on your lofty branches

If I loved thee

I would never follow that birdie

Deeply infatuated but repeats monotonous music for this green shade

I wouldn't

Just like that fountainhead

Comforts you perennial coolness

I wouldn't

Just like that cliff

Rises your tallness and sets off your presitige figure

Or even that sunshine

That spring rain

No, not enough from all those above

I should be a kapok

----As a tree I stand there

Close to you

Beneath the ground

We tightly crisscross us with our roots

In the clouds we subtly touch each other by leaves

Every blow of wind

Delievers our greetings

No one but us understand those murmurs

You possess

Copper-branches, iron-stem

Falshion-alike, sword-alike, and even hastate

I have

Huge vermilion flowers

seemly as pensive sigh but also valiant torch-alike

Polar outbreak, tempest, thunderbolt we burden with

Mist, hillside-haze, rainbows we share

Apparently we stay apart forever but stay together all life-long time

Only this

Can be appraised as GREAT LOVE

Loyalty lies here

Love---

Not only for your giant sturdy stature

But also for that site you are sticking to

----Lands under your feet