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Adam marvels at her bulwark optimism, even after the routs she has suffered

Resilience, immanence, numen—qualities his discipline is notoriously poor in measuring

Long past the hour when his clenched fists would have given out, they whoop descant to the storm.

Vistas open up through the green crenellations

The sun cuts starbursts in the needles’ verdigris, a thousand sconces of astral light. The great dinosaur plates of the trunks turn shades of orange, terra-cotta, and cinnamon.