Supplement to 



Mome IFlature = StubiP Course 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 I, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1905 No. i 



TREE STUDY 



They've cut the wood away. 

 The cool green wc ^d, 



Wherein I used to play 

 In happy mood. 



The woodman's axe has cleft 



Each noble tree. 

 And now, alas, is left 

 No shade for me. 



The brooks that flow in May 



Arc dry before 

 The first hot summer day, 



And flow no more. 



The fields are brown and bare, 

 And parched with heat ; 



No more doth hover there 

 The pine scents sweet. 



No more his note is heard 



To blithely ring 

 Where erst the woodland bird 



Would sit and sing. 



No more the wood-flowers 

 bloom 



Where once they bloomed 

 Amid the emerald gloom 



Of ferns entombed. 



Fled, now, the woodland sights, 



The scented air ! 

 Fled, all the sweet delights 



That once were there ! 



And fled the gracious mood 



That came to me, 

 When to that quiet wood 



I used to flee ! 



— Author Unknown. 



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