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So, whatever the plant may be a great forest-tree or a spear of grass its 

 cells are made of carbon and water. The whole tree is made of these cells, 

 trunk, roots, branches, leaves, flowers, fruit. 



Look at a great oak tree. Can it be that that immense plant is made of 

 nothing but a mass of tiny cells not larger than the dot of an / and not so 

 large ? It can be. It is so. 



PUSSY WILLOW. 



THE brook is brimmed with melting snow, 

 The maple sap is running, 

 And on the highest elm a crow 



His black wings is sunning. 

 A close green bud the Mayflower lies 



Upon its mossy pillow ; 

 And sweet and low the south-wind blows, 

 And through the brown fields calling goes, 



" Come Pussy ! Pussy Willow ! " 

 Within your close brown wrapper stir ; 

 Come out and show your silver fur ; 



"Come Pussy! Pussy Willow!" 



Soon red will bud the maple-trees, 



The bluebirds will be singing, 

 And yellow tassels in the breeze 



Be from the poplars swinging; 

 And rosy will the Mayflower lie 



Upon its mossy pillow ; 

 But you must come the first of all, 

 ''Come, Pussy!" is the south-wind's call, 



" Come Pussy ! Pussy Willow ! " 

 A fairy gift to children dear, 

 The downy firstling of the year, 



Come Pussy ! Pussy Willow ! 



