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But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

Virginia Woolf
Sweet, Dust, Tree
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions
But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.