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Blue Ridge Parkway
Poet Laureate of the Blue Ridge Parkway
It has always been this one brief dream of a tree
That whispers me into the vista
Like a single seed
Just newly broken open
—From the poem "Out of Many" in The Soul Tree by Laura Hope-Gill, first Poet Laureate of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
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