THE HEART OF THE TREE 



What does he plant whi) plants a tree? 

 He plants the friend of sun and sky; 

 He plants the flag of breezes free; 

 The shaft of beauty towering high; 

 He plants a home to heaven anigh, 

 For song and mother-croon of bird 

 In hushed and happy twilight heard — 

 The treble of heaven's harmony — 

 1 hese things he plants who plants a tree. 



What does he plant who plants a tree? 

 He plants cool shade and tender rain, 

 And seed and bud of days to be, 



And years that fade and flush again; 

 He plants the glory of the plain; 

 He plants the forest's heritage; 

 The harvest of a coming age; 

 The joy that unborn e\es shall see — 

 These things he plants who plants a tree. 



What does he plant who plants a tree? 

 He plants, in sap and leaf and wood. 

 In love of home and loyalty 



And far-cast thought of civic good — 

 His blessings on the neighborhood. 

 Who in the hollow of His hand 

 Flolds all the growth of all our land — 

 A nation's growth from sea to sea 

 Stirs in his heart who plants a tree. 

 Henry Cuyler Bunner 



From Pccnis of H. C. Bunner 

 Copyright 1S84, :89J, 1S99, by Charles Scribncr's Sons 



