George Pope Morris Quote

Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I 'll protect it now.


Woodman, spare that Tree! (1830), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.