The Heart of
a Tree
Henry Cuyler
Bunner
1855-1896
What does he
plant who plants a tree?
He plants a 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—
These 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 eyes 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
Holds all the growth
of all our land—
A nation's growth from sea to sea
Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
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