Forest Fires 🔥

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Someone dropped a burning match

Unheeded by the way;

It caught on fire some underbrush;

Its user did not stay. 

From grass to brush, from brush to tree, 

So stealthily it ran, 

That no one ever guessed or knew

Just where that fire began. 


Someone built a campfire

And failed to put it out. 

A breeze came and quickened;

The embers spread about;

And soon the woods were blazing. 

The fire spread and spread;

The trees that look long years to grow

Stand blackened now and dead. 


Someone saw a little fire

As he was passing by. 

He did not stop to put it out;

He didn't even try. 

He had not started it, of course;

He had no time to spare;

That it might start a forest fire

He didn't even care. 

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