ARBOR DA V MANUAL. 
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WORK. 
N EVER a leaf falls 
Until its part is done. 
God gives us grace like sap and dew. 
Some work to every one. 
You must grow old, too, 
Beneath the autumn sky; 
But lovelier and brighter your lives may glow, 
Like leaves before they die. 
Brighter with kind deeds, 
With hope and gladness given ; 
Till the leaf falls down from the withered tree, 
And the spirit is in heaven ! 
THE BOBOLINK AND CHICK-A-DEE. 
BOBOLINK and a chick-a-dee 
A Sang a sweet duet in an apple-tree. 
“ When I’m in good voice,” said the chick-a-dee, 
“ I sing like you to high C, high C ; 
But I’ve caught such a cold 
That for love or for gold 
I can sing only chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee.” 
St. Nicholas. 
Sweet letters of the angel tongue, 
I’ve loved ye long and well, 
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet 
To find some secret spell,— 
A charm that has bound me with witching power, 
For mine is the old belief, 
That, midst your sweets and midst your bloom, 
There’s a soul in every leaf! 
M. M. Ballou. 
In crystal vapor everywhere 
Blue eyes of heaven laughed between, 
And, far in forest-deeps unseen, 
The topmost elm-tree gather’d green 
From draughts of balmy air. 
Tennyson. 
