Benefits of Apple Trees Song Postcard

The Planting of the Apple Tree What plant we in this apple tree? Buds, which the breath of summer days Shall lengthen into leafy sprays, Shall lengthen into leafy sprays; Boughs, where the thrush, with crimson breast, Shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest. We plant, upon the sunny lea, A shadow for the noontide hour, A shelter from the summer shower, When we plant the apple tree. What plant we in this apple tree? Fruits, that shall swell in sunny June, And redden in the August noon, And redden in the August noon, And drop, when gentle airs come by That fan the blue September sky; While children come with cries of glee, And seek them where the fragrant grass Betrays their bed to those who pass, At the foot of the apple tree. Apple blossoms, apples, a bird on her nest and a country home surrounded by flowering trees surround the words of William Cullen Bryant set to music in this antique sheet music from 1901.