Country Warmth
For all your Hearth's Desire
Logs to burn! Logs to burn!
Logs to save the coal a turn!
Here's a word to make you wise
When you hear the woodman's cries.
Beechwood fires burn bright and clear,
Hornbeam blazes too,
If the logs are kept a year
To season through and through.
Oak logs will warm you well
If they're old and dry,
Larch logs of pinewood smell
But the sparks will fly.
Pine is good and so is yew
For warmth through wintry days,
But poplar and willow too
Take long to dry or blaze.
Birch logs will burn too fast,
Alder scarce at all.
Chestnut logs are good to last
If cut in the fall.
Holly logs will burn like wax-
You should burn them green.
Elm logs like smouldering flax,
No flame is seen.
Pear logs and apple logs
They will scent your room,
Cherry logs across the dogs
Smell like flowers in bloom.
But ash logs, all smooth and grey,
Burn them green or old.
Buy up all that come your way
They're worth their weight in gold.
Site design ©
Toby Wilkinson 2002.
This page last updated 4th March 2005.
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