Show j JUST sT jF FOLKS KS By EDGAR A. A GUEST I Copyright 1931 by Edgar A. A Ouest Guest I TREE AND MAN IAN MANThe MANThe The oak tree never quits Its place To t ask about a neighbors neighbor's care A A thing of majesty and grace Whose leafy arms seem raised In prayer It stands two hundred years or more Against the storms of winter stout While rhuie man Is 15 broken down before The sands of or sev seventy nty years run out From the thc fIrst moment of or its birth Until 1 a rotted log it dies Its roots draw sweetness from tho the earth Its us leaves draw nectar from the skies Patient untroubled and serene A tree with age ace in splendor grows Because on it no grief grier has been Such as the fretted mortal knows Poor man must roam the world afar And give his strength to many needs needs' Pride pomp and place and pity are arc Forever Forc spurring him to deeds Not only must he suffer pain But God has fashioned him so fair That none may cry to him in vain Even a no strangers stranger's hurt hell he'll share The span of or mortal life is brief brier The oak tree lon long outlives us all P J JYe Yet Ye better Its to sulfer grief To weary oft at duty's call calI To wear our strength and courage out Against the tides of human tears fears fears Than live and never ask about The cause of sorrows sorrow's blinding tears |