Sequoia Sempervirens
© Leslie Fish

If the oak is king of trees?
What then can our redwood be?
Lord above all greenery
Everlasting tree

Named for him who first could see
The letters of the Cherokee
Still you sigh remember me
Everlasting tree

Tall beyond the reach of eye
Spearing silent to the sky
Watch the ages rolling by
Everlasting tree

Sprouted long before the Sphinx
Where the mountain's lion slinks
Chaining time in wooden links
Everlasting tree

Pledges made upon thy bark
Hold the memory in the mark
A million turns of light and dark
Everlasting tree

Dryad's castle, Titan's spear
Living book of year on year
Spread thy welcome seedlings here
Everlasting tree

Everlasting tree