The Bread-fruit Tree


And listen, dear children,

In hot countries too,

The Bread-fruit tree grows,

Most delicious for you;

Its great roasted nuts,

Like soft, sweet loaves of bread,

Form most of the food

On which natives are fed.







And further, its fibres

Of bark, will make cloth;

Its wood, boats and houses;--

Its leaves are not loath

To be used for a towel,

A table-cloth, napkin;

Its juice will make bird-lime,

And tinder, its catkin.



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