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Joyce Kilmer Facts #3

DID YOU KNOW?

Joyce Kilmer's famous poem "Trees," written in his Mahwah, NJ, house on February 2nd, 1913, is still one of the most popular poems in the English language. "Trees" ranked No. 26 in the "Top 50" poems based on Google hits in a recent survey by word historian M.H. Forsyth. There were 1,080,000 hits. In other polls, it placed as high as in the "Top Ten."

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