Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-08 | Page 20 | The Lone Tree

"UU THE LONE TREE All summer long ft stood our (ho e A .-triplin, ire.-, il-shaperl and p. or. The fo-ld thai m.jih"irlj h seemed Viro i As any wlde-SWOpi Scottifib moor I Ba ii first one sunny day As I was passing in a Main And something in me seemed to n.iy "There stands a tr-e which prowj in vain " Behind it were the aistant hilip I On which were ranged uaes'ic trees I Surely." thought J, 'this weakixoljB No place in nature's harmoD.e?. This Is an outcast ixcm r tt Deserted by its fedow-kmd Of ilttle use to God or nun I 1 I And then I dropped it out of rnlno- Then came a da In ni:";mn n,'t'n I , The woods with gold neenifd J ablaze I passed alons that v.n 'Pin . And turned upon .he tscene .0 P j There Mood the oui. is'. garb ' jB Blending its scarlet with the ?'C.B And brown and purp e, ri Mv prP''B a., , . . , ,., nn I DllD- 1 Oil u innicei poor auu jnu'" J fliaib( It seemed as if som Ma.vrr H;in'; Had rightlv placed thnt Iod- Upon that stretch of barren land , Exactly where it o uh' io ba . The landscape with its spl ndor". ' J 41 An incompleted w.r! ha-l b"n M 1 Jj. Without that stripling st-ind,n""' jl To splash Its scarlet on (he set n .., .rcJlL Who knows, when life's great rs- 1 ne( dono' .an -noM But what the outeasts. ra base. Shall. In the scenes we k;K up- Find that they also nil " I K Perhaps as loneh in " ' M VDIU SePmingly los- ;o -.d )tDaM 0NU Ye spending their dis on MfJ 'Vf To serve the beauty of His