Poetry Friday: Every Time I Climb a Tree

In need of a poem this week, I consulted my trusty The World Treasury of Children's Literature, compiled by Clifton Fadiman. And I discovered a new (to me) poet of children's verse: David McCord (1897 to 1997). I believe that his work is still under copyright, but here is an excerpt from a particularly charming one:

Every Time I Climb a Tree

Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
Every time I climb a tree
I scrape a leg
Or skin a knee
And every time I climb a tree
I find some ants
Or dodge a bee
And get the ants
All over me

-- David McCord