And yonder bunch of bamboo is the prouder Japanese,
The equal in beauty of the trimmest of the trees.
“My delight is in the palm, the pride of sunny tropics,
The tree in all Nature for the poet’s varied topics;
I here have them all but the gorgeous royal palm—
King Frost is oft unfriendly to his majesty’s balm.
“And consider, if you please, that rare Australian Oak,
Standing there so lonely, like the greatest of the folk;
And the other generous fellow, the noble camphor tree,
Gives peace and health and hope to many a bird and me.