ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 
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Written for the ‘‘Arbor Day Manual.” 
ARBOR DAY. 
[Air— !i My Maryland.”] 
A GAIN we come this day to greet, 
Arbor Day! sweet Arbor Day ! 
With willing hands and nimble feet, 
Arbor Day! sweet Arbor Day ! 
No sweeter theme our time can claim, 
No grander deed points us to fame, 
• . No day more proud than this we name 
Arbor Day ! dear Arbor Day ! 
Bring forth the trees ! Prepare the earth 
For Arbor Day, sweet Arbor Day. 
With song we celebrate the birth 
Of Arbor Day, sweet Arbor Day ! 
And when our joyful task is done, 
And we our meed of praise have won, 
The glorious work’s but just begun 
• For Arbor Day, dea.r Arbor Day ! 
. Alton, N. Y. Seymour S. Short. 
TO WORDSWORTH. 
P OET of nature, thou didst teach to see 
In earth and sky, meadow and river’s glide, 
On mountain peaks, in ocean’s ceaseless tide, 
Order and truth, a peace and unity, 
In seeming discord and complexity, 
Of nature’s handiwork; did teach to know, 
That in all life, even in the flowers that blow, 
There, may be seen the shadows of infinity. 
Priest of the beautiful! thou in tiny life 
Of noble thought, of simple wants and cares, 
Of fightings stern in which our days are rife, 
Didst weave a beauty that the hero wears, 
As on he leads to triumph in the strife 
Or bravely in life’s common way he fares. 
iChatauquan, 1889. O. F. Emerson. 
Heart’s Ease ! One could look for half a day 
Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out 
Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, 
That gave this gentle name. Mary Howitt. 
