A Card of Greeting from Enos Mills 



A Little Tree 



never see a little tree peeping con- 

 fidingly) up among the witKered 

 leaves ^\?itKout wondering what 

 trials and triumphs it will have. 

 I hope it will live with rapture in 

 the jlo^^er opening days of spring; that 

 it will be a home for birds and hear 

 their low, s^\?eet mating-songs; and 

 that it will find life xN^orth liA)ing and 

 live long to better and to beautify) 

 the earth. If it is cut down ma}) it 

 become the ridge-log of a cabin ^\?here 

 loA)e will abide; or if it must be burnt, 

 I hope it will blaze on the hearthstone 

 of a home \\?here children play in the 

 firelight on the floor. 



Enos A. Mills. 



CoPyrighl by Enos Mills 



