' While thus through all the stages thou hast push"( 

 Of treeship — first a seedling, hid in grass ; 

 Then twig ; then sapling ; and, as century roll'd 

 Slow after century, a giant hulk 

 Of girth enormous, with nioss-cushion'd root 

 Upheaved above the soil." 



CowrF.R. 



^8 



