| 1866 - 546 páginas
...acre. If mixed, halve these quantities ; and so when sown with clover or timothy. Old Virginia. " 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot. There, woodman, let it âtand. Thy axe shall harm it not/' The thoughts upon the holding of our homesteads, and the value... | |
| George Pope Morris - 1838 - 96 páginas
...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 hack... | |
| George Pope Morris - 1839 - 168 páginas
...spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Tvvas 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 hack... | |
| 1841 - 376 páginas
...GEORGE P. MOBBI8. WOODMAN, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, '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 hack... | |
| 1837 - 400 páginas
...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 would'st thou hack... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 páginas
...not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand i 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 * Among the fables of antiquity, is one which says... | |
| 1847 - 906 páginas
...spare that tree : Touch not a single bough : In youth it shelter'd me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot:...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 hack... | |
| William Valentine - 1849 - 230 páginas
...spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough, In youth it shelter'd me, And I'll protect it now; 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ;...woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. Hard by, in a pine, sat a sober old Owl, A-fanning himself in the cool western breeze ; And he wore... | |
| Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 páginas
...TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it shelter'd me, MORRIS. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot;...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 hack... | |
| 1850 - 98 páginas
...single bough ; In youth it shelter'd me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That plac'd it near his cot ; — There, woodman, let it stand — Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Is spread o'er land and sea, — Ah ! wouldst thou hack... | |
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