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ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 



Specimen Program*. Port Henry, N. Y t Continued. 



6. Prom "A Mood:" 



Pine in the distance, patient through sun or rain, 



Meeting with graceful persistence. 



With yielding but rooted resistance. 



The north wind's wrench and strain, 



No memory of past existence, 



Brings thee pain. 



7. From *"The Oak." First Stanza. See Index. 



To me 'tis not cheer thou art singing : 



There's a sound of the sea, 



O mournful tree. 



In thy boughs forever clinging, 



And the far-off roar 



Of waves on the shore 



A shattered vessel flinging. 



8. From *" Under the Willows :" "I care not how men trace their ancestry," etc., 



four lines, and " I have many a life-long leafy friend," etc., six lines. See Index. 



9. From the same: " In June 'tis good to lie beneath a tree," etc., seven lines. See Index. 



10. From *" Under the Old Elm: " " Of our swift passage," etc., seven lines. See Index. 



THE BASSWOOD, DEDICATED TO THE GARY SISTERS. 



By First Intermediate Department. 

 GEMS FROM ALICE AND PHOEBE GARY: 



1. From "A Lesson:" 



One autumn time I went into the woods 



When Nature grieves, 

 And wails the drying up of the bright floods 



Of summer leaves. 

 Then sitting down beneath a naked tree, 



I looked about, 



2. From the same : 



Woodland, green and gay with dew, 



Here, to-day, I pledge anew 



All the love I gave to you 



AVhen my heart was young and glad. 



Beeches gray, and solemn firs, 



3. From " The Felled Tree : " 



I slipped my roots round the stony soil 

 Like rings on the hand of a bride, 



And my boughs took hold of the summer's smile 

 And grew out green and wide. 



4. From " Old Pictures : " 



I see far off the woods whose screen 

 Bounded the little world we knew, 

 I see the comely apple-trees, 



5. From " Mourning in the Mountains : " 



Saying, in these, if there a lesson be, 



I "11 spy it out. 

 And presently the teaching that was meant 



I thought 1 saw, 

 That I, in trial, should patiently consent 



To God's great law. 



Thickets full of bees and burs, 

 You were then my school-masters. 

 Teaching me as best you could, 

 How the evil by the good 

 Thorns by flowers must be construed. 



And lambs, in white rows on the grass, 

 Lay down within my shade ; 



So I knew, all homely as I was, 

 For a good use I was made. 



In spring a blush with blossoms sweet ; 

 Or, bending with the autumn breeze, 

 Shake down the ripe fruits at our feet. 



And now from every sheltering shrub and vine, 

 And thicket wild with many a tangled spray, 



And from the birch and elm and rough-browed pine, 

 The birds begin to serenade the day. 



6. From " The Barefoot Boy : " 



I touch the spring-time's tender grass, 



I find the daisy buds ; 

 I feel the shadows deep and cool, 



In the heart of the summer woods ; 



7. From " Faded Leaves : " 



The hills are bright with maples yet ; 



But down the level land 

 The beech leaves rustle in the wind 



As dry and brown as sand. 



8. From " A Dream of Home : " 



I see the ripened autumn nuts, 



Like thick hail strew the earth ; 



I catch the fall of the winter snow, 



And the glow of the cheerful hearth . 



The clouds in bars of rusty red 

 Along the hill-tops glow, 



And in the still, sharp air, the frost 

 Is like a dream of snow. 



woods, with starlight shining through ! 

 My heart to-night is back with you ! 



1 know each beech and maple tree, 

 Each climbing brier and shrub 1 see, 

 Like friends they stand to welcome me. 



