ARAUCÁRIA DX GROUP

Text written in 1938 by ANTONIO GOMES DE ALMEIDA - PP5ATO
At the age of 16.
Father of our friend SERGIO LIMA DE ALMEIDA - PP5JR

O PINHEIRO

You provide the original and caracteristic element to Brazilian landscape; you are the king of our jungles, stay high as to dominate stars that nobody can reach.

Your green goblet open to the invariable blue sky.

When multiplied in our virgin woods, the pine trees look like a band of warriors, looking for our safety and peace. You don't have flowers as the beautiful jacaranda, but you are always green in Springtime, or in the Fall, when the birds from different specied come to your arms, gian arms, and share the harvest of your amazing fruit: the pinion seed.

Hail! pine tree dependability of present. Pine tree, blessed tree, your are the hope of our future. You are and will be forever the symbol of this large and industrial Parana State.

Pine tree, I greet you for being the basis of our industrial movement.

We all like and love you.

Hail! I greet you dearest vegetal.

Antonio Gomes de Almeida
April 1938.