WILD FLOWERS OP JANUABY. 

 (CONTINUED.) 



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CHAP. II. 



SNOWING-TIME. TREES UPSET BY THE GALES. LOCALI- 

 TIES OF REMARKABLE YEW-TREES. YEW IN THE OAK. 

 GROUNDSEL, DEAD-NETTLE, &C. STOCKING-GORSE. 

 ASPECT OF NATURE. 



" When winter winds are piercing chill, 



And through the hawthorn blows the gale, 

 With solemn feet I tread the hill, 

 That overbrows the lonely vale. 



For still wild music is abroad, 



Pale desert woods, within your crowd ; 

 And gathering winds in hoarse accord, 



Amid the vocal reeds pipe loud. 



Chill airs and wintry winds ! my ear 



Has grown familiar with your song ; 

 I hear it in the opening year, 



I listen, and it cheers me long " 



H. W. LONGFELLOW. 



CHEISTMAS sports and Christmas holidays, like all 

 other pleasant things, glide swift away, and the holly 

 and mistletoe begin to look dingy, among the huge 

 dark beams of the old farm-house kitchen. Even the 

 botanist almost fears to look out upon the frosty 

 lawn and withered garden, but when dawn slowly 

 stalks upon the wintry scene, feels inclined between 



