¶ Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever (B)
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Lever: Fallen Tree as a Lever:
"As they move farther it tips earthward
At a faster rate.
They retreat–
Back along the tree trunk.
Experimenting, they find the tree
On which they are walking
Is lying across another tree.
And then they observe
That the end of the tree behind them,
Opposite to the direction
In which they were walking,
Is itself superimposed
By a third and very mighty tree.
"Looking the situation over they find
That as they walk outward-- journeyward–
Along the first tree
That its slow but accelerating descent
Coincides with the other end’s
Lifting the trunk of the massive tree.
Never having heard of a lever
Or fulcrum,"
