the rubber tree owner is Jesus.
Each Scar I'll keep for Him 1
Instead I'll say of Gem
In His long Absence worn
A Costlier one
But every Tear I bore 5
Were He to count them o'er
His own would fall so more
I'll mis sum them.
Instead I'll say of Gem
In His long Absence worn
A Costlier one
But every Tear I bore 5
Were He to count them o'er
His own would fall so more
I'll mis sum them.
(F.920/J.877)
[1] Scar:: a cut in the rubber tree. I:: a rubber tree. Him:: owner of the tree.
[2] Gem:: something valuable, the secretion to make rubber.
[3] Absence worn:: a wound without care.
[4] Costiler one:: the scar with lavishing secretion.
[5] Tear:: the ooze of the tree; a rip, rend. bore:: accepted.
[7] fall:: to drop; to move downwards, an ambiguous word to disguise the poem's true intention; it can be a praise or complaint.
[8] mis sum:: a hint on rubber that used to erase mistakes; to do a wrong calculation, summary.
INDIA RUBBER TREE . . . The Indians make cuts in the tree, and apply clay cups, (which they easily make themselves) to catch the milk. ─ American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge (1839)
