98 VOICES FEOM THE WOODLANDS. 



Lord Hunsdon stood beside her with his gallant array of 

 huntsmen ? of Sir Philip Sidney's oak at Penshurst 



" A goodly tree, which stands the sainted mark 

 Of Sidney's birth j" 



and those of giant growth, Gog and Magog, in Yardley 

 Forest, the one measuring twenty-eight feet at three feet 

 from the ground, and containing fifty-eight feet of timber ; 

 the other of still more imposing dimensions, though not 

 of the same bulk, yet equal in majesty and fulness of 

 timber to the oak of "Wallace, which stands at Elderslie, 

 near Paisley, within sight of the parental home of that 

 patriot hero, and where he first drew breath ? 



Other noble trees have gradually disappeared, and form 

 subjects for history or tradition. Such is the venerable 

 oak which stood in the Water-walk of Magdalen College, 

 Oxford, a notable tree when the college was founded in 

 the middle of the fifteenth century ; a magnificent oak, 

 also, dug out of Hatfield Bog, the largest ever known in 



