Historic Sheet Music Collection

Title

Trees

Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1918

Comments

Title: Trees

To Mrs. Noble McConnell President of the New York Mozart Society.

Lyrics by: Joyce Kilmer

Music by: Carl Hahn

Publisher: The John Church Company. Cincinnati, New York, London.

Copyright: 1918 by The John Church Company. International Copyright. Words used by permission of the Author and the George H. Doran Co. (“Trees” and Other Poems, Copyright 1914)

Advertisements: back cover – some sheet music for The Little Woman in Gray. Verse by Gordon Johnstone, music by Carl Hahn.

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Lyrics

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree,
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the sweet earth’s flowing breast.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree,
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the sweet earth’s flowing breast.
A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray
A tree that may in summer wear, a nest of robins in her hair.
Upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain
Poems are made by fools like me but only god can make a tree.
A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray
A tree that may in summer wear, a nest of robins in her hair.
Upon whose bosom snow has lain, who intimately lives with rain
Poems are made by fools like me but only god can make a tree.

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