The Historic Trees of MassachusettsMarshall Jones Company, 1919 - 139 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
15 feet Abington American elms ANCIENT OAKS AVERY OAK beautiful trees beneath black walnut BOSTON COMMON Boxford BOXFORD ELM breast height Cambridge Captain Rice CHAPTER Charlemont CHARLEMONT BUTTONWOOD circumference at breast command CUSHING ELM Dedham Deerfield ELIOT OAK elm in front elm tree ENDICOTT PEAR TREE England English elms famous trees feet in circumference feet in height ference forest fourteen feet girth Governor ground half feet hill Hingham historic trees Holliston HOLLISTON ELMS honor inches in circumference Indians inscription ISLAND GROVE John Endicott Jonathan Harrington Lafayette Elm largest Lexington limbs LINDENS AT PLYMOUTH Louisa May Alcott MARLBORO ELM Massachusetts measured miles monument Natick old elm Oliver Wendell Holmes PAIR OF ELMS Perley planted road Roby Elm Rugg Elm shade SHEFFIELD ELM SOUTH NATICK spread of branches Springfield Elm stood Tavern town TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS Washington Elm WELL-KNOWN TREES WENDELL HOLMES PINE white oak Wilbraham
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Página 47 - 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!
Página 83 - E'er wore his crown as loftily as he Wears the green coronal of leaves with which Thy hand has graced him. Nestled at his root Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower With...
Página xiv - Wise with the lore of centuries, What tales, if there be " tongues in trees," Those giant oaks could tell, Of beings born and buried here ; Tales of the peasant and the peer, Tales of the bridal and the bier, The welcome and farewell, Since on their boughs the startled bird First, in her twilight slumbers, heard The Norman's curfew-bell.
Página 17 - The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed ; And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 10 - Of our swift passage through this scenery Of life and death, more durable than we, What landmark so congenial as a tree Repeating its green legend every spring, And, with a yearly ring, Recording the fair seasons as they flee...
Página 17 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came, Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come...
Página 19 - Mayflower hadst in thee a veritable Promethean spark ; the life-spark of the largest Nation on our Earth, — so we may already name the Transatlantic Saxon Nation. They went seeking leave to hear sermon in their own method, these Mayflower...
Página 40 - The same author observes, that " the whole translation was writ with but one pen, which pen had it not been lost, would have certainly deserved a richer case than was bestowed upon that pen, with which Holland^ writ his translation of Plutarch" It was long since inquired, " What benefit has all this toil and suffering produced?
Página 48 - Liberty of your Country. Step forth and give your assistance in building the frigate to oppose French insolence and piracy. Let every man in possession of a white oak tree be ambitious to be foremost in hurrying down the timber to Salem where the noble structure is to be fabricated to maintain your rights upon the seas and make the name of America respected among the nations of the world.
Página xxiii - Has gathered you from wood and plain. We call to you again, again; The rush and rumble of the car Comes back in answer. Deep and wide The wheels of progress have passed on ; The silent pioneer is gone. His ghost is moving down the trees, And now we push the memories Of bluff, bold men who dared and died In foremost battle, quite aside.