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When you replicate something, you do it (for the first time/for the second time).
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When you replicate something, you do it for the second time.
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He plants cool shade and tender rain,
And seed and bud of days to be,
And years that fade and flush again;
He plants the glory of the plain;
He plants the forest's heritage;
The harvest of a coming age;
The joy that unborn eyes shall see___
These things he plants who plants a tree.
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And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
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