18 JANUARY 1930, Page 13

Forester's Song

WILL you take a sprig of hornbeam ? Will you try a twig of pine ? Or a beam of dusky cedar

That the ivy dare not twine ?

My larch is slim and winsome, There is -blossom on the sloe ;

Timber tell you, tell you timber, How the trees do giow I There are thorns on yonder mountain, An olive on the crag, And I leave a knotted thicket As a chamber for the stag ; Lovely oak and spangled sycamore, The quince and mistletoe ; Willow will you, will you willow, How the trees do grow 1 A. E. CovrAirn.