Naturally this is an opportunity that we cannot afford to 

 let pass. Let us do our duty as the trustees of this wonderful 

 estate, so that posterity will have an opportunity to point to 

 us with pride and not regard us with contempt as the people 

 who neglected our duties and responsibilities, because too 

 ignorant, indifferent or careless to change the wording of the 

 law. 



The Cry of the Hills 



By C. A. Laflin 



GIVE us back our trees 

 O mankind! 



Give us back our trees. 

 The biting winter winds are cold, 

 And scorching, summer's breeze; 

 Our rivers foaming once are rills. 

 List to the cry, we die, we die, 

 The crying of the hills. 



Give us back our trees, 



O mankind! 

 Give us back our trees. 

 Our lakes reflect but naked shores, 

 The deer forsake our leas, 

 And blackened trunks a menace stand. 

 List to the cry, we die, we die, 

 The hils forsaken land. 



Give us back our trees, 



O mankind! 

 Give us back our trees. 

 We do not want the gouging plow; 

 Our rocky sides will seize 

 And wrest it from the plowman's hand. 

 Send him not nigh, to die, to die, 

 But heed the hills' demand. 



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