Arbor Day: Its History, Observation, Spirit and Significance, Volume 3Robert Haven Schauffler |
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... AND LEAVES OF GRASS A HAPPY THOUGHT FLOWERS PLANTS AND FLOWERS SEEKING THE MAYFLOWER Henry Ward Beecher 245 · John Milton 245 John Ruskin 246 . E. C. Stedman 247 THE STORY OF THE HYACINTH CHILDREN AND FLOWERS THE VIOLET xxvi ARBOR DAY.
... AND LEAVES OF GRASS A HAPPY THOUGHT FLOWERS PLANTS AND FLOWERS SEEKING THE MAYFLOWER Henry Ward Beecher 245 · John Milton 245 John Ruskin 246 . E. C. Stedman 247 THE STORY OF THE HYACINTH CHILDREN AND FLOWERS THE VIOLET xxvi ARBOR DAY.
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... happy idea of designating a given day when all should be invited to unite in this work belongs solely to ex - Governor Morton . His great problem was to meet the urgent needs of vast treeless prairies . At the meeting of the American ...
... happy idea of designating a given day when all should be invited to unite in this work belongs solely to ex - Governor Morton . His great problem was to meet the urgent needs of vast treeless prairies . At the meeting of the American ...
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... happy experience that there is a peculiar pleasure in the parentage of trees , forest , fruit or ornamental — a pleasure that never cloys but grows with their growth . Arbor Day has proved as memorable for the home as the school ...
... happy experience that there is a peculiar pleasure in the parentage of trees , forest , fruit or ornamental — a pleasure that never cloys but grows with their growth . Arbor Day has proved as memorable for the home as the school ...
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... happy tree , Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee ! He who plants a tree , He plants peace . Under its green curtains jargons cease ; Leaf and zephyr murmur soothingly ; Shadows soft with sleep Down tired eyelids creep , Balm of slumber ...
... happy tree , Of the bliss that shall inhabit thee ! He who plants a tree , He plants peace . Under its green curtains jargons cease ; Leaf and zephyr murmur soothingly ; Shadows soft with sleep Down tired eyelids creep , Balm of slumber ...
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... happy twilight heard — The treble of heaven's harmony These things he plants who plants a tree . What does he plant who plants a tree , He plants cool shade and tender rain , And seed and bud of days to be , And years that fade and ...
... happy twilight heard — The treble of heaven's harmony These things he plants who plants a tree . What does he plant who plants a tree , He plants cool shade and tender rain , And seed and bud of days to be , And years that fade and ...
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Page 331 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 261 - When all at once I saw a crowd, — A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay : Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company; I gazed — and gazed — but little...
Page 252 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 255 - A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Page 151 - Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent. Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him When into the woods He came.
Page 355 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 22 - Fruits that shall swell in sunny June, And redden in the August noon, And drop, when gentle airs come by, That fan the blue September sky. While children come, with cries of glee, And seek them where the fragrant grass Betrays their bed to those who pass, At the foot of the apple tree.
Page 254 - And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin, Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in : And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes, And make her full of hateful fantasies.
Page 346 - Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.* 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Page 269 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook.