under the tree

'And over and over I tried to see

Some of us walking under the tree,

And the children playing everywhere,

And how it looks when I am there.'

Photo: Under an 120-year-old camellia tree, New Zealand

Text: An excerpt of the Elizabeth Madox Roberts poem 'On The Hill'

from the book 'Under The Tree', first published in 1922.

My father William Henry Slavick wrote the Afterword.