What do we plant when we plant a tree? A thousand things th… - Henry Abbey

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What do we plant when we plant a tree?
A thousand things that we daily see,
We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our country's flag;
We plant the shade from the hot sun free,
We plant all these when we plant the tree.

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Henry Abbey (11 July 1842 – 7 June 1911) was an American writer and poet.

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