<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499546" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An umbrella tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As an umbrella without an umbrella, <br>A tree stands under the Sun all the day, <br>Serving you and me as an umbrella.<br>Giving oxygen and sucking poison, <br>A tree clears the air for us to breathe.<br>Offering its all parts to all animals, <br>Does it demand anything in return? <br>With no shield to defend with, nor a sword<br>To offend with, it stands for our mercy.<br>We are indebted to plants much more than<br>To animals and humans for our lease.<br>To kill it is to murder it, a crime.<br>To be ungrateful to it is a sin.<br>To dig your own grave is the biggest fun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be a tree for each house, planted and grown.<br>Be a tree for each child, to grow along.<br>Things made of wood be gone out of demand, <br>With carpenters rehabilitated.<br>New roads be cut with pits made for trees.<br>Like orphanage, stray trees may get a home.<br>Youngsters, unless you resolve it with faith, <br>The world to the future will have no mirth.<br>24.05.2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rm.+Shanmugam+Chettiar">Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=499546" data-title="An umbrella tree de Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar" data-description="As an umbrella without an umbrella, A tree stands under the Sun all the day, Serving you and me as an umbrella. Giving oxygen and sucking poison, A tree clears the air for us to breathe. Offering its all parts to all animals, Does it demand an..."></div> </div> </div>

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