What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants the 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.
~Henry Cuyler Bunner

American novelist, journalist, and poet Henry Cuyler Bunner was born on this day in 1855.