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ALL: 



This famous elm is still standing. It is also celebrated as the one under 

 which Whitefield preached. 



ALL: 



So to-day as we turn from the present 



To the dusty past, we see 

 How many a great and noble deed 

 Is marked by a famous tree. 



LIZZIE M. HADLEY. 



MAGNOLIA-GRANDIFLORA. 



MAJESTIC flower! How purely beautiful 

 Thou art, as rising from thy bqwcr of green, 

 Those dark and glossy leaves so thick and full, 



Thou standest like a high-born forest queen 

 Among thy maidens clustering round so fair; 



I love to watch thy sculptured form unfolding, 

 And look into thy depths, to image there 



A fairy cavern, and while thus beholding, 

 And while thy breeze floats o'er thee, matchless flower, 



I breathe the perfume, delicate and strong, 

 That comes like incense from thy petal-bower ; 



My fancy roams those southern woods along, 

 Beneath that glorious tree, where deep among 



The unsunned leaves thy large white flower-cups hung ! 



CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH. 



THE YEW. 



"T^REWHILE, on England's pleasant shores, our sires 



\_j Left not their churchyards unadorned with shades 



Or blossoms, but indulgent to the strong 



And natural dread of man's last home, the grave, 



Its frost and silence they disposed around, 



To soothe the melancholy spirit that dwelt 



Too sadly on life's close, the forms and hues 



Of vegetable beauty. There the yew, 



Green ever amid the snows of Avinter, told 



Of immortality, and gracefully 



The willow, a perpetual mourner, drooped; 



And there the gadding woodbine crept about, 



And there the ancient ivy. 



BRYANT. The Burial Place. 



