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immigrants who have already transported their 

 seeds in the wool of the sheep? 



If every child in every American school was 

 taught to memorize and recite and understand Joyce 

 Kilmer's poem, "Trees," perhaps the next genera- 

 tion would be wiser than we. Perhaps, then, the 

 forests of our country would stand as eternal monu- 

 ments to the spirit of Joyce Kilmer and those other 

 thousands of brave Americans who lost their mortal 

 lives on the battlefields of France that the soul of 

 humanity might be forever free. Every American 

 who cares for the future of our Nation should know 

 this poem. I quote here only the first, third and 

 final verses: 



"I think that I shall never see 

 A poem lovely as a tree. 



"A tree that looks at God all day, 

 And lifts her leafy arms to pray; 



"Poems are made by fools like me, 

 But only God can make a tree." 



Joyce Kilmer, 1886. 



