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10. William Cullen Bryant, in his poem, "The Planting 

 of the Apple-tree," expresses some very beautiful thoughts. 

 The following stanzas are especially well put: 



An Apple. 



" What plant we in this apple-tree? 

 Fruits that shall swell in sunny June, 

 And redden in the August moon, 

 And drop when gentle airs come by 

 That fan the blue September sky; 

 While children come, with cries of glee, 

 And seek them where the fragrant grass 

 Betrays their bed to those who pass 

 At the foot of the apple-tree. 



Each year shall give this apple-tree 

 A broader flush of roseate bloom, 

 A deeper maze of verdurous gloom, 

 And loosen when the frost clouds lower 

 The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower. 

 The years shall come and pass, but we 

 Shall hear no longer where we lie, 

 The summer's songs, the autumn's sigh 

 In the boughs of the apple-tree." 



