The Rescue cf an Old Place 



that JUMfl t^ If ing 



tree grow, we cannot 

 to disturb it for fear it will be in the way 

 in the future, and so we postpone the evil 

 day. Possibly they wfll do better in their 

 wind-swept situation for not being widely 

 separated, and for the next generation, 

 which will be unrestrained by oar senti- 

 ments, we hare provided some small Elms 

 that ought to be good trees by the time 

 the short-lived Maples are beginning to 

 shoffie off their mortal coil We know 



five us, unless we emulate old Parr, and 

 the 



fired to the age of a 

 And died by a faD 



Ebm*ir AH we ask is that they wfll hurry to shel- 

 t*f ter us from the burning afternoon sun, to 



which our front is exposed, and when their 

 task is done, the noble Elms, which are 

 "a hundred years growing, a hundred 

 years standing, a hundred years dying^** 

 shall be our monument when this ItOTiff 

 like its ancient predecessor, shall have 

 crumbled to ruin. 



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