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GOOD COMPANY by KARLE WILSON BAKER

First Line: TODAY I HAVE GROWN TALLER FROM WALKING WITH THE TREES
Last Line: LORD, WHO AM I THAT THEY SHOULD STOOP -- THESE HOLY FOLK OF THINE?
Subject(s): ANIMALS; RELIGION; TREES; THEOLOGY;
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees,
The seven sister-poplars who go softly in a line;
And I think my heart is whiter for its parley with a star
That trembled out at nightfall and hung above the pine.

The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk
Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;
And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke --
Lord, who am I that they should stoop -- these holy folk of thine?






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