Show 0 Just Folks By Edgar A. A Guest Gueste Q e 0 TREES ON SECOND AVENUE So many motors up and Go rushing day b by day The trees we planted as a town ton l The e city cut cuts Those great arms grew until at last f Their fingers seemed to me inert t J To shelter eer everyone one who passed Along Along- long th that t lovely In June e the song birds twittered there In ft autumn aU all vho rho strolled S e Along that peaceful thoroughfare Walked neath an arch of gold But progress progress strode int into l' l our town town And talked or of greater things Of population and renown And aU all that tha commerce brings And b au t sickened in the smoke And loveliness turn turned d pale The elms and maples seemed to choke in 1 t that at onrushing g gale le To lay ay the lovely elms are arc down don We need their room they say The trees we plantEd as a town The city cuts away Copyright 1927 Edgar A. A Guest I |