Trees
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Title |
Trees |
Caption |
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest lies far back in the mountains of North Carolina, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This stand of timber, 3,800 acres in extent, is to be preserved in perpetuity as a tribute to the man who wrote perhaps the most widely known poem about trees. Beneath one of the giant hemlock trees, amidst the breath-taking beauty of misty waterfalls, cascades and profuse vegetation, a bronze plaque, mounted on a granite boulder, bears the simple inscription: "Joyce Kilmber, 165th Infantry, Rainbow Division, Soldier and Poet. Author of Trees. Born in New Brunswick, N.J., December 6, 1886. Killed in action in France, June 30, 1918." |
Creator |
United States. Forest Service. |
Description |
Color postcard featuring images of the Kilmer Forest, memorial plaque, and surrounding mountains. In the center of the scene is the text of the Kilmer poem "Trees:" "I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree./ A tree whose hungry mouth is prest/ Against the earth's sweet flowing breast./ A tree that looks at God all day/ and lifts her leafy arms to pray./ A tree that may in summer wear/ A nest of robins in her hair./ Upon whose bosom snow has lain;/ Who Intimately lives with rain./ Poems are made by fools like me,/ But only God can make a tree." |
Subject (tgm) |
Poetry Mountains Trees Monuments Forests |
Subject Topical |
Postcards--North Carolina. |
Subject Geographic |
Graham County (N.C.) Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness (N.C. and Tenn.) |
DCMI Type |
Image |
Form General |
Postcards |
Language |
English |
Medium of Original |
Paper |
Collection in Repository |
North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052); collection guide online at http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/P0052/ |
Local Identifier |
P052;038-0006 |
Citation |
"[Postcard title]" in North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill |
Digital Collection |
North Carolina Postcards |
Repository |
North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Copyright |
Copyright Status Unknown |
filename |
P052-038-0006.tif |
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