"He who plants a tree,
He plants love.
Tents of coolness spreading out above
Wayfarers he may not live to see.
Gifts that grow are best,
Hands that bless are blest,
Plant! Life does the rest."

And Life would do the rest--oh! surely%
--in the case of her father and herself,
was the dewy thought of Pemr'ose Lorry
as she planted her baby tree in honor of
that novel Wayfarer, that would first
traverse space and conquer it--bridge
the gulf which made Earth a hermit amid
the heavenly bodies--of the great invention,
whereof poets in future ages
would sing, that daringly took the first
step towards linking planet with planet.

And the tender sapling was rooted in
the hope that long before it was a mature
tree that comet-like Wayfarer would start,%
--the Thunder Bird would fly.

Well! star-dust never blinded the eyes.
But it certainly dazzled those of Pem-
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