Tree of Life hymn inspiration

In the process of researching my family tree, I am completing my usual postings in class.  This week we had to read a poem (hymn) from Garrison Keillor "Sweet, Sweet Corn".  One of our tasks were to write a hymn of our own, should we choose to do so (it was not required).  Inspired by my recent research of my family tree, I wrote the following hymn:

Tree of life, take me back

Scottish, Irish, French, so many more

The boat has brought you here

To this land of free and dear

New perspectives, opportunities galore

Free your mind, your heart, your soul

A new beginning, the past a memory

Though now is sought to come alive again

Teaching the ways of old

To branch out again

With the past of gold

* The picture is my Great Grandparents (my mother's grandparents)