Arbor and Bird Day Bulletin 



SUGGESTED PROGRAM FOR ARBOR DAY 



1 Song 



2 Reading: The Significance of Arbor Day 



3 Recitation : Foreign Lands ................... . ...... Stevenson 



or 

 The First Bluebird .......... James Whitcomb Riley 



4 Essay: Some typical trees of our locality 



5 Song 



6 Reading: Trees in Washington 



7 Reading: The Friendly Trees ........................ Van Dyke 



8 Essay: Some practical suggestions as to the transplanting of 



trees for school grounds 



9 Song 



10 Quotations, or selected readings 



11 Recitation: The Heart of the Woods ........ Florence Wilkinson 



12 Song 



13 Planting of tree in school grounds or park 



O for a seat in some poetic nook, 



Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! 



Leigh Hunt. 



A MINSTREL OF THE MARCHES 



On a bulrush stalk a blackbird swung 



All in the sun and the sunshine weather, 

 Teetered and scolded there as he hung 



O'er the maze of the swamp woof's tangled tether; 

 A black bass leaped for a dragon-fly 



And struck the spray from the sleeping water, 

 While airily, eerily there on high 



Sang the blackbird perched from his teeter-totter. 



Anonymous. 



SPRING SONG 



A bluebell springs upon the ledge, 

 A lark sits singing in the hedge; 

 Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air, 

 And life is brimming everywhere. 

 What lark and breeze and bluebird sing, 

 Is Spring! Spring! Spring! 

 No more the air is sharp and cold; 

 The planter wends across the wold, 

 And glad, beneath the shining sky 

 We wander forth, you and I. 

 And even in our hearts doth ring 

 This song of Spring! Spring! 



Paul Laurence Duribar. 



