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ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 



Specimen Programs. Port Henry, N. Y. Continued. 



3. Last six lines from " April." See Index. 



4. From " Mogg Megone : " 



The oak upon the windy hill. 



Its dark green burthen upward heaves 



The hemlock broods above its rill, 



Its cone-like foliage darker still, 



Against the birch's graceful stem, 



And the rough walnut-bough receives 



5. From "A Memorial:" 



Green be those hillside pines forever, 

 And green the meadowy lowlands be, 

 And green the old memorial beeches, 

 Name-carven in the woods of Lee! 



6. From " Dedication " to " Songs of Labor : " 



The sun upon its crowded leaves, 

 Each colored like a topaz gem ; 

 And the tall maple wears with them 

 The coronal, which autumn gives, 

 The brief, bright sign of ruin near, 

 The hectic of a dying year I 



Still let them greet thy life companions 

 Who thither turn their pilgrim feet. 

 In every mossy line recalling 

 A tender memory sadly sweet. 



Above the fallen groves of green, 

 Where youth's enchanted forest stood, 

 Dry root and mossed trunk between, 

 A sober after-growth is seen, 



As springs the pine where falls the gay-leafed maple 

 wood. 



7. Extract from a letter : 



Yet birds will sing, and breezes play 

 Their leaf-harps in the sombre tree: 

 And through the bleak and wintry day 

 It keeps its steady green alway, 

 So, even my afterthoughts may have a charm for 

 thee. 



The wealth, beauty, fertility, and healthfulness of the country largely depend upon the 

 conservation of our forests and the planting of trees. My indignation is yearly aroused 

 by the needless sacrifice of some noble oak or elm, and especially of the white pine, the 

 grandest trees in our woods, which I \vould not exchange for oriental palms. 



8. From " The Lumbermen : " 



Wildly round our woodland quarters, 



Sad-voiced autumn grieves ; 

 Thickly down these swelling waters 



Float his fallen leaves. 



9. From * " The Palm Tree : " 



To him the palm is a gift divine, 



Wherein all uses of man combine, 

 House, and raiment, and food, and wine ! 



10. From " The Frost Spirit : ' 



He comes, he comes, the Frost Spirit comes ! He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees where 



You may trace his footsteps now. their pleasant green came forth, 



On the naked woods and the blasted fields and the And the winds, which follow wherever he goes, have 



brown hills' withered brow. shaken them down to the earth. 



Through the tall and naked timber, 



Column-like and old, 

 Gleam the sunsets of November, 



From their skies of gold. 



And, in the hour of his great release, 

 His need of the palm shall only cease 



With the shroud wherein he lieth in peace. 



THE SUGAR MAPLE, DEDICATED TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 



By First Primary Department. 

 GEMS FROM HOLMES: 



1. Extract from *" Talks on Trees:" " There is a mother-idea," etc. See Index. 



2. Extract from a letter : 



When we plant a tree, we are doing what %ve can to make our planet a more wholesome 

 and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us, if not for ourselves. As you 

 drop the seed, as you plant the sapling, your left hand hardly knows what your right hand 

 is doing. But Nature knows, and in due time the Power that sees and works in secret 

 will reward you openly. 



3. Extract from letter : * 



You have been warned against hiding your talent in a napkin ; but if your talent takes 

 the form of a maple-key or an acorn, and your napkin is a shred of the apron that covers 

 the lap of the earth, you may hide it there, unblamed ; and when you render in your 

 account you will find that your deposit has been drawing compound interest all the time. 



