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,"