<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Three Trees</h1><p class="byline"> EVERARD OWEN <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>From Mr. Owen's book, "Three Hills and Other Poems." Sidwick& Jackson, ltd., Publishers, London, England. Special permission to inert in this book.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">THERE is a hill in England</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Green fields and a school I konw,</p><p class="line">Where the balls fly fast in summer,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the whispering elm-trees grow,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">A little hill, a dear hill,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the playing fields below.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">There is a hill in Flanders,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Heaped with a thousand slain,</p><p class="line">Where the shells fly night and noontide</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And the ghosts that died in vain--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">A little hill, a hard hill,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To the souls that died in pain. </p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">There is a hill in Jewry,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Three crosses pierce the sky,</p><p class="line">On the midmost He is dying</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To save all those who die--</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">A little hill, a kind hill</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To souls in jeopardy.</p></div></body></html> · Great War