Show TREES TR EES AND YIEN MEN I 1 the tr tree ee that never ha had a to fight for sun and sky and air and light but lived out in the open plain and always got goi its share hare of f rain rain never became a forest king but lived and died a weakly thing the man who never had to toil or never stooped his hands to soil who never had to win win his share of sun and sky and light fight and air never became a superman super man but lived and died as he began good timber does not grow in in ease the stronger the winds the tougher the trees the farther the sky the greater the length the more the wind the more the strength by sun and cold by rain and snows entrees in trees or man good timber grows where thickest stands the forest growth we find the patriarch of both and they hold converse with the stars whose broken branches show the scars of many winds and much of strife this is the common law of life dob douglas jas malloch |