{"id":2780,"date":"2001-12-31T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-31T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:51:17","slug":"here-lies-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Here lies a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Here lies a tree by Pooh<br>House at Pooh Corner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Here lies a tree which Owl (a bird)<br>Was fond of when it stood on end<br>And Owl was talking to a friend<br>Called me (in case you hadn&#8217;t heard)<br>When something Oo occurred<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/herelies2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 2001<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>2 For Lo! the wind was blusterous<br>And flattened out his favourite tree;<br>And things looked bad for him and we<br>Looked bad, I mean, for he_and us<br>I&#8217;ve never known them wuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">3 Then Piglet (Piglet) thought a thing:<br>&#8220;Courage!&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s always hope.<br>I want a thinnish piece of rope.<br>Or, if there isn&#8217;t any, bring<br>A thickish piece of string.&#8221;<br><br>4 So to the letter box he rose,<br>While Pooh and Owl! said &#8220;Oh&#8221; and &#8220;Hum!&#8221;<br>And where the letters always come<br>(Called &#8220;Letters only&#8221;) Piglet sqoze<br>His head and then his toes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 AA Milne<\/sup><\/sub><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>5 O gallant Piglet (Piglet)! Ho!<br>Did Piglet tremble? did he blinch?<br>No, no, he struggled inch by inch<br>Through Letters Only, as I know<br>Because I saw him go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 He ran and ran, and then he stood<br>And shouted, &#8220;Help for Owl, a bird,<br>And Pooh, a bear!&#8221; until he heard<br>The others coming through_the wood<br>As quickly as they could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 &#8220;Help, help and Rescue!&#8221; Piglet cried,<br>And showed the others where to go.<br>[Sing ho! for Piglet (Piglet) ho!]<br>And soon the door was opened wide,<br>And we were both outside!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sing ho! for Piglet, ho!<br>Ho!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpdl.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Here_lies_a_tree_(Stuart_Moffatt)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ChoralWiki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/mof_herelies.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NoteWorthy Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here lies a tree by PoohHouse at Pooh Corner 1 Here lies a tree which Owl (a bird)Was fond of when it stood on endAnd Owl was talking to a friendCalled me (in case you hadn&#8217;t heard)When something Oo occurred 2 For Lo! the wind was blusterousAnd flattened out his favourite tree;And things looked bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}