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A nest not later than robins deduce her hair;

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Who nearly lives operate rain.

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But lone God get close make a tree

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Born collection Dec. 6, 1886, guarantee New Town, N.J., come to get parents Annie and Town Kilmer, significant was forename Alfred Author Kilmer. (His father was the discoverer of Lbj & Johnson’s Baby Powder.)

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Joyce Kilmer

American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier

Joyce Kilmer
Kilmer's Columbia University yearbook photograph, c. 1908
Born	Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-12-06)December 6, 1886 New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	July 30, 1918(1918-07-30) (aged 31) near Seringes-et-Nesles, Marne, France
Cause of death	Killed in action
Occupation	Poet, journalist, editor, lecturer, soldier
Alma mater	Columbia University (A.B. 1908) Rutgers College
Period	1909–1918
Genre	Poetry, literary criticism, essays, Catholic theology
Notable works	Trees and Other Poems (1914), Main Street and Other Poems (1917)
Spouse	Aline Murray (1908–1918, his death)
Children	5

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an Americanwriter and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom crit

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SGT. JOYCE KILMER KILLED IN ACTION, AUTHOR OF POEM “TREES”

July 30, 1918, One Hundred Third Anniversary

Few schoolchildren fail to learn the short and simple poem called “Trees:”

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only god can make a tree.

Its creator, Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, was killed in action by a sniper’s bullet during the Second Battle of Marne on July 30, 1918. He was 31 years old. Today is the 100th anniversary of that tragic event.

Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on December 6, 1886, Kilmer was a prolific writer and poet, but today mostly he is remembered for his short poem “Trees.” His poetry has been criticized for being too simple and too romantic. Indeed, Kilmer lived at the end of the era of romanticism and his death in war, something that the romantics would admire, seems somehow tragically ironic, but fitting.

Kilmer was born into a prominent family. His father was Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilme