I ride with the voices of waterfalls!

I swing on as one in a dream—I swing

Down the airy hollows, I shout, I sing!

The world is gone like an empty word:

My body’s a bough in the wind, my heart a bird!

—Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.

TREES

By Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.