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



9. From " Our Homestead : " 



Our old brown homestead reared its walls In the lonesome nights, and heard the limbs 

 From the wayside dust aloof. As they creaked against the pane: 



Where the apple-boughs could almost cast And those "orchard trees, oh, those orchard trees ! 

 Their fruit upon its roof; I've seen my little brothers rocked 



And the cherry-tree so near it grew In their tops by" the summer breeze- 

 That when awake I've lain 



10. Prom " Field Preaching : 



I have been out in field and wood. 

 Listening to praises sweet and counsel good. 

 Such as a little child had understood, 



That, in its tender youth. 

 Discerns the simple eloquence of truth. 



THE OAK, DEDICATED TO WILLIAM CUT.T.FN BRYANT. 



By Second Grammar Department. 

 GEMS FROM BRYANT- 



1. From * " Forest Hymn : " " The groves were God's first temples," eight lines. See 



Index. 



2. From the same : " Father, thou hast not left thyself without a witness," etc., ten lines. 



3. From *" Among the Trees:" "The wind of Mavis sweet," etc., six lines. See 



Index. 



4. From the same: " Trees of the forest, and the open plain," etc., ten lines. 



5. From the same : " Nay, doubt not," etc., seven lines. 



6. From * " An Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood." First nine lines. See Index . 



7. From * a The Antiquity of Freedom:" "Here are old trees," etc., twelve lines. 



See Index. 



8. From * " The Planting of the Apple Tree." First stanza. See Index. 



9. From " My Autumn Walk : " 



Beautiful over my pathway The leaves are swept from the branches 

 The forest spoils are shed ; But the living buds are there, 



Thev are spotting the grassy hillocks With folded flower and foliage. 

 With purple and gold and red. To sprout in a kinder stir. 



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10. From " Autumn Woods : " 



O Autumn ! why so soon Ah ! 'twere a lot too blest 



Depart the hues that make thy forests glad, Forever in thy colored shades to stray : 



Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon. Amid the kisses of the soft south-west 

 And leave thee wild and sad ! To rove and dream for aye. 



THE RED MAPLE, DEDICATED TO HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 



By First Grammar Department. 



GEMS FROM LONGFELLOW- 



1. From * " The Hemlock Tree." See Index. 



2. From * " The Masque of Pandora : " 



Guarding the mountains around Filled with the breath of freedom 



Majestic the forests are standing. Each bosom subsiding, expanding. 



Bright are their crested helms. Now like the ocean sinks, 



Dark is their armor of leaves ; Now like the ocean upheaves. 



3. From * " Evangeline." Introduction. See Index. 



4. From * " The Spirit of Poetry : " 



There is a quiet spirit in these woods. The flowers, the leaves, the river on its way 



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 Groves, through whose broken roof the sky looks in. 



Hence gifted bards. The distant lake, fountains, and mighty trees. 



Have ever loved the calm and quiet shades. * * * * 



For then there was an eloquent voice in all In manv a lazy syllable, repeating 



The sylvan pomp of woods, the golden sun. Their old poetic legends to the wind. 



