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The maple puts her corals on In May 



Lowell 



Oh, where would be our rule on the sea 



And !h<' lame of the sailor band. 



Were it not for the oak and the cloud-crowned 



pine 

 That grow on the quiet land? 



— Eliza Cook. 



Summer or winter, day or night. 



The woods are an ever-new delight. 



They give us peace, and they make us strong, 



Such wonderful balms to them belong. 



— Stoddard. 



The poplars in long order due 



-'!'( nnyson. 



(iive me of your bark. O birch tree. 

 Of your yellow bark, O birch tree ; 

 Growing by the rushing river. 

 Tall and stately in the valley ! 

 I a light canoe will build me, 

 Build a swift Cheemaun for Bailing. 

 Thou shalt float upon the river 

 Like a yellow leaf in autumn. 

 Like a yellow water-lily. 



— Lo>igfeUoir. 



The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees. 



— Dry den. 



Whore weeps the birch with silver bark 

 And long, dishevelled hair. 



— s'cott. 



But Thou art here — thou fill'st 

 The solitude. Thou art in the soft winds 

 That run along the summit of these trees 

 In music. Thou art in the cooler breath 

 That from the inmost darkness of the place 

 Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the 



ground 

 The fresh, moist ground, are all instinct with 



thee. 



— Bryant. 



Live thy life 



Young and old 

 Like yon oak. 

 Bright in spring, 



Living gold. 



Summer-rich 



Then ; and then 

 Autumn-changed 

 Sober-hued 



Gold again. 



All his leaves 



Fall'n at length 

 Look, he stands 

 Trunk and bough, 

 Naked strength. 



Tennyson. 



A song for the forest aisled. 



With its gothic roof sublime, 



The solemn Temple of time 

 Where man becometh a child. 

 ,\s lie lists to the anthem-roll 



Of the wind in the solitude, 

 pie hymn which telleth his soul 



That Cod is the voice of the wood. 



— W. 11. V<nable. 



Noiselessly as the springtime 

 Her crown of verdure weaves 



And all the trees on all the hills 

 Open their thousand leaves. 



i/r>. Alexander. 



