White Pine 



The Pine 



Henry Klein 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



One impulse from a vernal wood 

 May teach you more of a man, 

 Of moral evil and of good, 

 Than all' the sages can. 



— William Wordsworth 

 Tree friendships are very precious things. John Muir, writing 

 among his beloved trees of the Yosemite Valley, adjures his 

 worldweary fellow men to seek the companionship of trees. 



"Go learn how they live and behave in pure wildness, to see 

 them in their varying aspects thru the seasons and weather, re- 

 joicing in the great storms, putting forth their new leaves and 

 flowers, when all the streams are in flood, and the birds singing, 

 and sending away their seeds in the thoughtful Indian summe'r, 



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