The Author to the Reader I've read that Luther said (it's come to me So often that I've made it into meter): And even if the world should end tomorrow I still would plant my little apple-tree. Here, reader, is my little apple-tree. (Randall Jarrell)

The Author to the Reader I've read that Luther said (it's come to me So often that I've made it into meter): And even if the world should end tomorrow I still would plant my little apple-tree. Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.

Randall Jarrell

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