Stephen Maria Crane

Here you will find the Poem The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers of poet Stephen Maria Crane

The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers

The trees in the garden rained flowers. 
Children ran there joyously. 
They gathered the flowers 
Each to himself. 
Now there were some 
Who gathered great heaps -- 
Having opportunity and skill -- 
Until, behold, only chance blossoms 
Remained for the feeble. 
Then a little spindling tutor 
Ran importantly to the father, crying: 
"Pray, come hither! 
See this unjust thing in your garden!" 
But when the father had surveyed, 
He admonished the tutor: 
"Not so, small sage! 
This thing is just. 
For, look you, 
Are not they who possess the flowers 
Stronger, bolder, shrewder 
Than they who have none? 
Why should the strong -- 
The beautiful strong -- 
Why should they not have the flowers?" 
Upon reflection, the tutor bowed to the ground, 
"My lord," he said, 
"The stars are displaced 
By this towering wisdom."