The whuppin’ sooker at wha’s tip

Oor little point o’ view appears,

A midget coom o’ continents

Wi’ blebs o’ oceans set, sends up

The braith o’ daith as weel as life,

And we maun braird anither tip

Oot owre us ere we wither tae,

And join the sentrice skeleton

As coral insects big their reefs.

What is the tree? As fer as Man’s