Bruce Shanks (1908-1980)

[inscription reads] " better to make the sewers “root-tight.” Thus one of our noblest, most dignified & at the same time most poetical tree is being sacrificed to commercialism. It seems poetical of its own accord, not made so by my mind. They (sic) way it sparkles and scatters sunshine. How the girdle must hurt! Its shiver seems to ascend to heaven. / Sept 19, 1914. / Heavy foggy mist on the air. A sun-spoked morning. Sky dappled with pithy flakes. / Mist whitened trees in distaste ray-streaked. English "