Fiftieth Anniversary of the Service Tree May 1980

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Service Tree: May 1980

The tree was planted on a Tuesday in May 1930.

For worship lifts the worshipper’s bowed strength

Close to the god’s pride and bliss his soul adores…

To him who serves with a free equal heart

Obedience is his princely training’s school,

His nobility’s coronet and privilege,

His faith is a high nature’s idiom,

His service a spiritual sovereignty…

An offering to the self of the great world.