Knows it not joy or sorrow <br />Lives it only for silent service; <br />Casts out its self, <br />Retrenching its lavishness <br />To let go what's transcient, <br />To keep itself for another, <br /> <br />Dies with the seed in new life- <br />An opening soul out to nature, <br />What took the whole of creation <br />To come alive- the mystery known, <br />I should know what God and Man is- <br />Alas..infinity always between us.<br /><br />yoonoos peerbocus<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tree-s-myth/