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planted on the hill-side which overlooks the bro 
their edges by loops of the sinuous Housatonic. 
•ops of the si 
•ring measures of the si 
, as it were, in prose t 
ses of their leafy langua 
ns I have j 
meadows, sc 
Housatonic. Nature finds 
Winter strips them of the 
n, and summer reclothes t 
What are these maples and beeches and birches but odes and idyls and madrigals? 
What are these pines and firs and spruces but holy hymns, too solemn for the many-hued 
raiment of their gay deciduous neighbors ? 
6. Extract from a letter : 
wa^growing," it fstn uch' mo re tTha've 8 been the occasion cff °th f plan tl ng"o iTari Zak which 
shall defy twenty scores of winters, or of an elm which shall canopy with its green, 
cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities. 
7. Prom “ Spring has Gome : ” 
zgmmr Ipg*^ 
BIRCH, 1 
ByS, 
DICATED TO JA 
3 RUSSELL 
1. From “ To a Pine Tree : ” “ Spite of \ 
2. From “ The Birch Tree.” First two s 
