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Spring Song, No. II., ) Eleanor Smith's Songs for 



All the Birds Have Come Again, ) Little Children. 



Out of the Sky, Mrs. Dodge's When Life is Young. 



Spring Song, ] 



A Spring Song, I . , ^^ 



. <-. • HT .• f Lovejoy's Nature m Verse. 

 A Spnng Meeting, •' •' 



A Song of Spring, J 



More Difficult Poems: 



A Song of Easter, Celia Thaxter. 



Extracts From the Progress of Spring, i „ 



,, , o • i o7 V Tennyson. 



Early Spring, J •' 



Extract from the Song of the Sower, 1 



Extract from the New and the Old, \ Bryant. 



Return of the Birds, 



Return of Spring, Longfellow. 



The First Flowers, Whittier. 



STONES 

 Granite. 



Facts : 



Granite is an igneous, Plutonic rock ; that is to say, it 

 was formed by the action of fire in the bowels of the 

 earth, the kingdom of Pluto. Just how it was made is 

 still a matter of dispute. It has been generally sup- 

 posed to be the oldest of all the rocks, the foundation 

 stone of the earth, because it is known to constitute 

 whole mountain ranges. Nevertheless granite is some- 

 times formed to-day from the molten mass thrown out 

 of volcanoes. Still, there can be no question that granite 

 is of very ancient origin. 



Because of its crystalline structure, we know that it 

 must have been originally a highly heated, molten mass, 

 which cooled slowly. By reason of its compactness, 



