Now! Then! 2025! - A Yorkshire Almanac

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Numbered as the trees in Greno I stood
Till was marked to fall;
Death laid the axe into the root,
As He will do to all.

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Numbered as the trees in Greno I stood
Till was marked to fall;
Death laid the axe into the root,
As He will do to all.

31 words.

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