A grumpy, playful voice complains about the sound of wind moving through a tree. Most people might find that sound soothing, but the speaker hears it as an irritation: it makes a noise just like the sea, which is a big, restless roar rather than a quiet rustle. The joke sharpens in the last two lines. Life already has “noise enough” to bother a person, so why add that stuff? The word “stuff” is deliberately dismissive, as though the speaker is waving the sound away. The mood is not deep anger or sadness—it is light, comic annoyance. The short lines and simple rhyme give it the feel of a grumbled aside, the kind of small complaint someone makes while trying to rest or think.
The Wind in the Tree — Summary
When the wind is in the tree. It makes a noise just like the sea, As if there were not noise enough To bother one, without that stuff.