Immovable dogmatic staunch <br />yet kind thousands <br />of people did climb <br />even those <br />careless at times <br /> <br />Would thee hurt <br />bark bend limb <br />shake a leaf <br />hear tree moan <br /> <br />Forgave them all for <br />such trespass <br />greatfull for no fall <br />clinging to mountain side <br /> <br />So long memory dim <br />unto dimension <br />noble tree <br /> <br />By seed new rooted <br />fresh sapling <br />growth memory of <br />tree lives on <br /> <br />No passer by pluck <br />tree inch high <br />from such <br />forth tree <br /> <br />Three hundred feet high <br />or none <br />may know such as <br />the word of grace <br />so unfold for the <br />next thousands <br />to trek said same <br />path<br /><br />Uloia Norris Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nobility-of-the-tree/
