December's Poem of the Month

The Foolish Fir Tree a Christmas poem

by Henry Van Dyke

(1852 – 1933)

"A tale that the poet Ruckert told
To German children, in days of old;
Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme
Like a merry mummer of ancient time,
And sent, in its English dress, to please
The little folk of the Christmas trees."