The Farthest Shore

From such seeds

Great Trees should rise

when does that southern species

know

flower and bloom

In time of trial

Midst dust

and heat

And fire

Saplings mustered

in long white rows

alone

would grow

bold and free

and wild

that such forests would

adorn now

our parks

in place of

Marble

Stone

And Iron

Yet crown they still the

sky

with towering arch

of limb

and bough

and leaf

that stretch towards a

Farthest shore

their shade

to our relief

MJEB