Counting-Out Rhyme

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Silver bark of beech, and sallow

Bark of yellow birch and yellow

    Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,

Colour seen in leaf of apple,

    Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,

Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,

    Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow

Stem of elder, tall and yellow

    Twig of willow.