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All: 
This famous elm is still standing. It is also celebrated as the one under 
which Whitefield preached. 
All: 
So to-day as we turn from the present 
To the dusty past, we see 
How many a great and noble deed 
Is marked by a famous tree. 
Lizzie M. Hadley. 
MAGNOLIA-GRANDIFLORA. 
M AJESTIC flower! How purely beautiful 
Thou art, as rising from thy bower of green. 
Those dark and glossy leaves so thick and full, 
Thou standest like a high-born forest queen 
Among thy maidens clustering round so fair; — 
I love to watch thy sculptured form unfolding, 
And look into thy depths, to image there 
A fairy cavern, and while thus beholding-, 
And while thy breeze floats o’er thee, matchless flower, 
I breathe the perfume, delicate and strong, 
That comes like incense from thy petal-bower; 
My fancy roams those southern woods along, 
Beneath that glorious tree, where deep among 
The unsunned leaves thy large white flower-cups hung ! 
Christopher Pearse Cranch. 
THE YEW. 
E REWHILE, on England’s pleasant shores, our sires 
Left not their churchyards unadorned with shades 
Or blossoms, but indulgent to the strong 
And natural dread of man’s last home, the grave, 
Its frost and silence — they disposed around, 
To soothe the melancholy spirit that dwelt 
Too sadly on life’s close, the forms and hues 
Of vegetable beauty. There the yew, 
Green ever amid the snows of winter, told 
Of immortality, and gracefully 
The willow, a perpetual mourner, drooped ; 
And there the gadding woodbine crept about, 
And there the ancient ivy. 
Bryant. The Burial Place. 
