O Trees! so vast, so calm! <br />Softly ye lay <br />On heart and mind today <br />The unpurchaseable balm. <br /> <br />Ere yet the wind can cease, <br />Your mighty sigh <br />Is spirit of the sky— <br />Half sorrow and half peace. <br /> <br />Mourn ye your brothers slain, <br />That now afar <br />From hush and dews and star <br />Man barters for his gain? <br /> <br />Mourn them with all your boughs, <br />For I must mourn, <br />In seasons yet unborn, <br />The cares that they will house.<br /><br />George Sterling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beneath-the-redwoods/
