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... ORCHARD , HARVEST , THE PAPAW THICKET , NATURE AND THE CITY , 228 241 - 265 286 306 NATURE AND THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING , 333 THE WOOD THRUSH : A Sonnet , A PRAYER , 363 364 63 NOTE NEARLY all of the illustrations are from amateur photo-
... ORCHARD , HARVEST , THE PAPAW THICKET , NATURE AND THE CITY , 228 241 - 265 286 306 NATURE AND THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING , 333 THE WOOD THRUSH : A Sonnet , A PRAYER , 363 364 63 NOTE NEARLY all of the illustrations are from amateur photo-
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... PAPAWS , WITH A SPRAY OF LEAVES , - 286 - A PAPAW WOODS , QUITE A CLUSTER ! " THE WIGWAMS OF THE FOREST , " PAPAW BLOSSOMS , A CLUMP OF PAPAW LEAVES AND FRUIT , A COUNTRY LANE , COUNTRY PASTIMES , " WHERE ARE THE FLOWERS , AND WHERE IS ...
... PAPAWS , WITH A SPRAY OF LEAVES , - 286 - A PAPAW WOODS , QUITE A CLUSTER ! " THE WIGWAMS OF THE FOREST , " PAPAW BLOSSOMS , A CLUMP OF PAPAW LEAVES AND FRUIT , A COUNTRY LANE , COUNTRY PASTIMES , " WHERE ARE THE FLOWERS , AND WHERE IS ...
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... papaws yellow with the year , and fall and tumble and roll to their secret hiding places among the weeds , there to await the culminating touch of a hard black frost before their final rich flavor can be appre- ciated . The many kinds ...
... papaws yellow with the year , and fall and tumble and roll to their secret hiding places among the weeds , there to await the culminating touch of a hard black frost before their final rich flavor can be appre- ciated . The many kinds ...
Page 126
... papaws . Lauracea - A clump of sassafras . Magnoliacea - Tulip - tree , or yellow poplar ( two speci- mens ) . Tiliacea - Basswood ( one lone medium - sized fellow , per- sisting tranquilly near some giant maples ) . And then , besides ...
... papaws . Lauracea - A clump of sassafras . Magnoliacea - Tulip - tree , or yellow poplar ( two speci- mens ) . Tiliacea - Basswood ( one lone medium - sized fellow , per- sisting tranquilly near some giant maples ) . And then , besides ...
Page 131
... papaw and magnolia . The trees thus superficially are sometimes very much alike ; and yet each species preserves intact its own little points of identity , and retains forever inviolate its own uniqueness among the trees . The bark of ...
... papaw and magnolia . The trees thus superficially are sometimes very much alike ; and yet each species preserves intact its own little points of identity , and retains forever inviolate its own uniqueness among the trees . The bark of ...
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Page 358 - OH yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 65 - As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
Page 54 - Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And gathering, at short notice, in one group The family dispersed, and fixing thought, Not less dispersed by day-light and its cares. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
Page 55 - She will bring thee, all together, All delights of summer weather; All the buds and bells of May, From dewy sward or thorny spray; All the heaped Autumn's wealth, With a still, mysterious stealth: She will mix these pleasures up Like three fit wines in a cup...
Page 11 - SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 183 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her inclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 237 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 362 - I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...