Classic Poem

A Gourd climbed up a Pine Tree's trunk,
And then he thus addressed the Pine:
" O Pine-tree! how many years hast thou been living?
Tell me of thy age and growth. "
The Pine-tree said, " Two hundred years my age.
As I can reckon, perchance six months more or less. "
The Gourd said, " How long the time thy growth has taken!
Look at me — in one week I have reached thy height. "
The Pine-tree said, " Wait thou for winter's rigours.
Then will we talk upon our age and growth. "