Beautiful essay and poem for this season of my life, "A Mountain Tree"

A mountain tree if it would see
The far horizons and the stars,
May never know a sheltered place
Nor grow symmetrical in grace.
Such trees must battle doggedly
He blasts, and bear the scars.

--Loyal Marion Thompson

https://www.tentmaker.org/Dew/Dew3/D3-TheMountainTree.html