Mulberry trees, wild cherry trees; the mango and the date;
The last you see must be the tree that keeps some men out late.
The sycamores—yes by the scores they line the river’s brim.
We know these trees afar, with ease, by mottled bark and limb.
Persimmon and the chinquapin sound good and nice and sweet;
We one and all late in the fall enjoy their fruits to eat.
The china berry is a very charming, flowering tree.
It grows down south, in spite of drought—up north it cannot be.
The pendant locust blooms look good; the tree is fine for shade;
For posts that last ’tis better wood than any other made.