THE ARBOR DAY LADY 
29 
PLANT IN SPRINGTIME 
Plant in the springtime the beautiful trees, 
So that in future each soft summer breeze, 
Whispering through tree-tops may call to our 
mind, 
Days of our childhood then left far behind. 
Days when we learned to be faithful and 
true; 
Days when we yearned our life’s future in 
view; 
Days when the good seemed so easy to do; 
Days when life’s cares were so light and so 
few. 
Oft in the present are we made to know 
What was done for us in years long ago, 
•How others sowed in the vast fields of 
thought, 
And, to us, harvest from their work is 
brought 
