The Tree They Couldn’t Cut Down

The Tree They Couldn’t Cut Down

By Paul McCann

There was story I heard about a tree

that stood alone on a hill ,

before the little village streets were built

to house the workers of a mill..

So just as the building began  ,

there was this tree in the way of the plan ,

and the developer said ,

cut it down , but the man didn’t understand .

it was a fairy tree

so no one would dare to cut it down where it stood .

Everyone knew if you cut a fairy tree down

you would come to no good .

They asked builders, labourers ,

and farmers if anyone would cut it down ,

but there was nobody anywhere

who would take the tree out of the ground .

So they rerouted all the streets around the tree

in order to appease ,

the powers that were there

around that ancient dwelling place of the fairies ..

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