Counting-Out Rhyme

Silver bark of beech, and

Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,

Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,

Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and

Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow.