188 APRIL 



" Lay aside your cloak, Birch Tree, 

 Lay aside your white skin wrapper. 

 For the summer time is coming, 

 And the sun is warm in heaven, 



And you need no white skin wrapper." 



And the tree with all its branches 

 Rustled in the breeze of morning, 

 Saying, with a sigh of patience, 

 "Take my cloak, Hiawatha." 



THE BIRCH 

 especially graceful delicate 



The birch is a beautiful tree. 

 The white birch is especially graceful and 

 delicate. 



It has been said of it : 



