TALKING TO GOD

A fighting man lay down for ease

In the shade of two tall forest trees

Deep dinted with bullet and shell.

And one tree said to the other,

“Is not this worn soldier our brother!

And has he not vowed to defend

This strip of green glade till the End!

Let us thank the kind Father in Heaven

For this kinship of man He has given.”

The trees talked to God all the night,

And they thrilled with a soaring delight.