Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TREES, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH


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First Line: I have a little grove of forty trees
Last Line: "a man -- who might prefer to be a tree!"
Subject(s): Trees


I have a little grove of forty trees,
Most of them pine, but some are oak and bay.
I walk among them in the cool of day
And hear them talk. They use each passing breeze
To make articulate such thoughts as these:
"If we could break our roots out of the clay,
"We, too, would move about and walk away.
"Will you not show us how to do it, please?"

"It's really very simple," I reply.
"But you must take your time to it, you know.
"And first, I fear, you'll really have to die
"And be reborn a thousand times or so.

"Then, on some future planet, you may be
"A man -- who might prefer to be a tree!"





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