THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST I am one spirit of all the trees I have whispered your name Down the leaves, down the leaves, And my voice is not hushed In the song of a bird Only those who believe Only those who have heard. And I'm in the bluebells and they are in me In the bark and branches The sap and the seed, And I am in you, and you are in me, Only those who believe, Only those who can see. And I'm in the woodbine, The rose and the thorn, In the wind and the sun, In the blizzard and storm, I am the silence, I am the green, Come, come and hear Your name on the breeze. -- Breege Duffy, "Seeing the Wood and the Trees" ed. Rowley and Haughton (Cairde na Coille - Forest Friends Ireland/Rowan Tree Press (2003).