annosa excelsos tendebat in aethera ramos aesculus, umbrosum magnas super ardua silvas nubibus insertans altis caput, instar, aperto si staret campo, nemoris lateque tenebat frondosi nigra tellurem roboris umbra.
An ancient oak grew there, which shot its tall branches to the sky, thrusting its shady top into the clouds and towering over the forest; had it grown on the open plain, it would have looked like a whole grove; and it covered a wide space of ground with the dark shade of its foliage.
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