A poem lovely as a tree"
Helen Keller, perhaps the most famous blind and deaf person in history, on one occasion invited a member of the audience to play the music to which Joyce Kilmer's* famous poem 'Trees' was set. A young blind pianist came up and proceeded to play the tune. Helen stood with her hand on the piano lid ~ feeling the vibrations.
When it was all over, she thanked the pianist, saying, "The way you played that music, I could feel the sound of the leaves in the wind."
Source: Francis Gay, The Friendship Book, 1999.Tuesday.
*Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) America writer, poet.
