“A Mountain Tree” – by Loyal Marion Thompson

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A mountain tree if it would see

The far horizons and the stars,

May never know a sheltered place

Nor grow symmetrical in grace.

Such trees must battle doggedly

the blasts, and bear the scars.

–Loyal Marion Thompson

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Photo credit: Anna Bolton

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See Wade E. Taylor’s devotion on this poem: “Vision”

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