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ABBIE MORTON DIAZ acorn ALICE CARY apple tree baby plant balsam fir bark bean bear beautiful birds bloom blossoms branches brown burst called CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS CHRISTINA G CLASS 40 CLASS 40 pupils color cotyledon creeping everywhere cross section cultivate power dicotyledons Draw earth fall feed fern forests fronds fruit garden geranium gills green leaves grew ground growth hold LANGUAGE LESSON leaf buds Let class lily look maple tree METHOD AND ILLUSTRATION monocotyledons moss mushroom NATURE STUDY notice oak tree old oak peach tree pine trees pistillate pistillate flowers plant growing plum pollen power of observation pretty pushing rain rings ripe roots rose runners seed leaves sepals Show slips soft soil spawn spores spread spring stalk stamens story strawberry plant STUDY MADE EASY SUGAR MAPLE summer teacher Tell timber tiny trunk veins run wind winter wood Woodman
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Page 24 - Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties...
Page 12 - THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have bade the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, Without a flower at all. We might have had enough, enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have had no flowers.
Page 74 - Buds, which the breath of summer days Shall lengthen into leafy sprays; Boughs where the thrush with crimson breast Shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest...
Page 24 - When but an idle boy, I sought its grateful shade. In all their gushing joy Here, too, my sisters played. My mother kissed me here, My father pressed my hand — Forgive this foolish tear, But let that old oak stand.
Page 73 - Shall I take them away?" said the Frost, sweeping down. "No, leave them alone Till the blossoms have grown," Prayed the Tree, while he trembled from rootlet to crown. The Tree bore his blossoms, and all the birds sung; "Shall I take them away?
Page 80 - What plant we in this apple-tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs To load the May-wind's restless wings, When, from the orchard row, he pours Its fragrance through our open doors...
Page 27 - Here I come creeping, smiling everywhere; All round the open door, Where sit the aged poor; Here where the children play, In the bright and merry May, I come creeping, creeping everywhere.
Page 52 - OCTOBER'S PARTY October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band. The Chestnuts came in yellow, The Oaks in crimson dressed; The lovely Misses Maple In scarlet looked their best; All balanced to their partners, And gaily fluttered by; The sight was like a rainbow New fallen from the sky.
Page 9 - Oh, the fluttering and the pattering of those green things growing ! How they talk each to each, when none of us are knowing; In the wonderful white of the weird moonlight Or the dim dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing.
Page 12 - To make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain, The nightly dews might fall, And the herb that keepeth life in man Might yet have drunk them all. Then, wherefore, wherefore were they made, All dyed...