- What does he plant who plants a tree?
- He plants a friend of sun and sky;
- He plants the flag of breezes free;
- The shaft of beauty, towering high.
- He plants a home to heaven anigh
- For song and mother-croon of bird
- In hushed and happy twilight heard—
- The treble of heaven’s harmony—
- These things he plants who plants a tree.
- What does he plant who plants a tree?
- He plants cool shade and tender rain,
- And seed and bud of days to be,
- And years that fade and flush again;
- He plants the glory of the plain;
- He plants the forest’s heritage;
- The harvest of a coming age;
- The joy that unborn eyes shall see—
- These things he plants who plants a tree.
- What does he plant who plants a tree?
- He plants, in sap and leaf and wood,
- In love of home and loyalty
- And far-cast thought of civic good—
- His blessing on the neighborhood
- Who in the hollow of His hand
- Holds all the growth of all our land—
- A nation’s growth from sea to sea
- Stirs in his heart who plants a tree.
