O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees, <br />I came along your narrow track <br />To bring my gifts unto your knees <br />And gifts did you give back; <br />For when I brought this heart that burns-- <br />These thoughts that bitterly repine-- <br />And laid them here among the ferns <br />And the hum of boughs divine, <br />Ye, vastest breathers of the air, <br />Shook down with slow and mighty poise <br />Your coolness on the human care, <br />Your wonder on its toys, <br />Your greenness on the heart's despair, <br />Your darkness on its noise.<br /><br />Frederic Herbert Trench<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/o-dreamy-gloomy-friendly-trees/
