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NEW YORK STATE PROGRAM, 1889. 



SECOND PUPIL: 



" I shall speak of trees, as we see them, love them, adore them in the fields where they are alive, holding 

 their green sunshades over our heads, talking to us with their hundred thousand whispering tongues, look- 

 ing down on us with that sweet meekness which belongs to huge but limited organisms which one sees 

 most in the patient posture, the outstretched arms, and the heavy drooping robes of these vast beings, en- 

 do wed with life, but not with soul which outgrow us and outlive us, but stand helpless, poor things while 

 nature dresses and undresses them." HOLMES. 



THIRD PUPIL: 

 " Give fools their gold and knaves their power; For he who blesses most is blest; 



Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; And God and man shall own his worth, 



Who sows a field, or trains a flower. Who toils to leave as his bequest 



Or plants a tree, is more than all. An added beauty to the earth." WHITTIER. 



FOURTH PUPIL : 



" There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, 

 a sweet and generous nature to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship 

 for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of 

 rural economy. * * * He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. 

 Nothing can be less selfish than this." IRVING. 



FIFTH PUPIL: 



"What conqueror in any part of 'Life's broad field of battle' could desire a more beautiful, a more 

 noble, or a more patriotic monument than a tree planted by the hands of pure and joyous children, as a 

 memorial of his achievements." LOSSIXG. 



SIXTH PUPIL: 



Oh ! Rosalind, these trees shall be m\- books. 

 And in their barks my thoughts I'll character. 

 That every eye which in this forest looks. 



Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere. SHAKESPEARE. 



SEVENTH PUPIL: 



" There is something unspeakably cheerful in a spot of ground which is covered with trees, that smiles 

 amidst all the rigors of winter, and gives us a view of the most gay season in the midst of that which is the 

 most dead and melancholy." ADDISON. 



EIGHTH PUPIL: 



"As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer 

 atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth 

 peace and philanthropy." IRVING. 



NINTH PUPIL : 



" I care not how men trace their ancestry, 

 To ape or Adam; let them please their whim; 

 But I in June am midway to believe 

 A tree among my far progenitors, 

 Such sympathy is mine with all the race, 

 Such mutual recognition vaguely sweet 



There is between us."' LOWELL. 



TENTH PUPIL : 



" Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy. Since they cannot change 

 their plan, are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them; and as some reach a great age, 

 they become, as it were, historical monuments, and, like ourselves, they have a life growing and passing 

 away, not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers. One sees them passing through vari- 

 ous stages , and at last, step by step, approaching death, which makes them look still more like ourselves.'' 

 ELEVENTH PUPIL: HUMBOLDT. 



" Summer or winter, day or night. 

 The woods are an ever new delight; 

 They give us peace, and they make us strong, 

 Such wonderful balms to them belong; 

 So, hving or dying, I'll take my ease 

 Under the trees, under the trees." STODDARD. 



