About this poem "I Hear You Call, Pine Tree" was published in "Selected Poems of Yone Noguchi" (Four Seas, 1921). About Yone Noguchi Yone Noguchi was born in 1875 in Tsushima, Japan.

But not just any poem. As reported in the New York Times' California Today newsletter and picked up by 7x7, the poem in question, The Giving Tree, is by Shel Silverstein.

Some gift to his mind, That grew on a tree, of a marvellous kind. ON December 19, 1861, an anonymous poet performed his humorous epic poem – all 350 lines of it dedicated to a Christmas tree ...