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Salt Lake's modern tree canopy is a living legacy of the peoples of Utah.
"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree," wrote Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).
"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree," wrote Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918). Kilmer's own 1913 poem, set to Oscar Rasbach's music, likely strikes a familiar chord to Utahns of a certain age, who sang it with their contemporaries for Arbor Day celebrations across the country in the mid-20th century.
Extolling the divine beauty of trees, the musical exercise reminded participants that regardless of the season, nature's emerald groves possessed qualities that we could scarcely hope to approximate by our own wit and artifice.
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