TREES
(Joyce Kilmer / Oscar Rasbach)

David Whitfield – 1961

Also recorded by:
Richard Tauber – 1938
Luton Girls' Choir – 1949


I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - August 2005)