70 Nature Myths and Stories.

feathers fell, there sprang up trees with featherlike
leaves and blood-red berries.

All the giants, fairies, plants and animals knew
why they grew.

The unselfish love in the eagle’s blood could not
die, but lived again in the beautiful trees.

But people who did not know how they came
there, called them mountain ash trees.

   

 
 
 
 

    
 
 

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