| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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| Trees Need Not Walk the Earth |
| | | David Rosenthal |
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| TREES need not walk the earth | |
| For beauty or for bread; | |
| Beauty will come to them | |
| Where they stand. | |
| Here among the children of the sap | 5 |
| Is no pride of ancestry: | |
| A birch may wear no less the morning | |
| Than an oak. | |
| Here are no heirlooms | |
| Save those of loveliness, | 10 |
| In which each tree | |
| Is kingly in its heritage of grace. | |
| Here is but beauty’s wisdom | |
| In which all trees are wise. | |
| Trees need not walk the earth | 15 |
| For beauty or for bread; | |
| Beauty will come to them | |
| In the rainbow— | |
| The sunlight— | |
| And the lilac-haunted rain; | 20 |
| And bread will come to them | |
| As beauty came: | |
| In the rainbow— | |
| In the sunlight— | |
In the rain.
The Nation | 25 |
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