128 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



coe, Ont. ; S. B. Johnson, Esq., Ottawa, Ont. ; Bryant Walker, 

 Esq., Detroit, Mich., U.S.A. ; Mrs. Ella Walton, Ottawa, Ont. ; 

 John Marshall, Esq., Ottawa, Ont. 



NEW EXCHANGE. 



"Journal of School Geography," care of Dr. Richard E. 

 Dodge, Morningside Heights, New York City, N.Y. 



THE FOREST TREES.* 



Spread o'er the vast and lovely earth 



There lives a band, 

 With firm feet planted in the soil, 

 The product of their ceaseless toil, 

 Their mother nature gives them birth 



All o'er the land. 



And noiseless, working as they grow 



So tall and grand, 

 They silent watch the flowing tide 

 Of man's unrest, his sin and piide. 

 While rich blood through their hearts will flow 



At God's command. 



They clothe the plains, they crown the hills 



From strand to strand, 

 In whispers low ihey breathe of life, 

 In wailing sobs they tell of strife, 

 By rivers broad and tiny rills 



Look how they stand ! 



They regal rule where tropic heat 



Glows on the sand. 

 Their singing leaves to soul a calm, 

 Their tinted greens to eyes a balm. 

 Mid winter's snow they crack and beat, 



A hardy band. 



With relics of a bygone race 



Who once did stand, 

 Where generations toil and rest ; 

 In flinty rocks all firmly pressed 

 The shadowy footprint we trace 

 Of Mighty Hand. 



Ella Walton. 

 Ottawa, Mety 22nd, 1897. 



*Lines written on the occasion of the l\Iay excursion of the Ottawa Field- 

 Naturalists' Club to Chelsea. 



