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From: "Simon Pryce Arboriculture" <catchrest@xxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk>
To: "UK Tree Care" <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: Arboricultural euthanasia and phallic trees
I think John's right, its all very well having everything in harmony
and
nicely proportioned, but the more interesting trees are the awkward
b*****rs
that assert themselves and refuse to fit in quietly and politely with
their
surroundings that make life more interesting.
Dear Simon, John, Ian, Peter, Jeremy et al
Thought this little gem of Christmas reading below might tickle.
Regards
Adam
......................
The bass, crowing voices of women
Who have cried all night. Men blowing vengeance
Sulkily into their moustaches...
.......And himself,
Aloofly ticking off another milestone
On immortality's Roman Road....
....There was space of a kind
Where had always been trees. Even the sky
looked surprised and odd, as if no one
Had seen that piece before.
You can't blame Caesar. Being
A top Roman, he naturally did
The Roman thing. Trees aren't citizens,
at least, not this sort, only
The tapering ones with classical profiles.
These were undisciplined, scattering
Acorns and magic with barbarian
Abandon. Also they lacked "gravitas",
Or perhaps they had too much
Of the wrong sort. Anyway, Caesar
Gave them the chop....
...But the wood caught up with him; woods do.
He died with naked swords in his face,
Like a wild beast taken by hunters,
Among the Senate-houses' marble pillars.
from "Morning After," by U.A. Fanthorpe
Thought the ending might appeal to the T.O.'s
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