 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 ax shall harm it not.  Bulletin - Página 591913Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...cynosure of neighboring eyes. Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough 1 In youth it shelter'd me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's...There, woodman, let it stand; Thy axe shall harm it not I That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea, And wouldst thou hew... | |
 | 1875 - 558 páginas
...WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE! WOODMAV! 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 hti cot: There, woodman, let It stand ; Thy axe shall harm it not. That old, familiar tree. Whose glory... | |
 | Alexander Pyne - 1875 - 458 páginas
...witnessed the woodman's axe uplifted to cut down the favourite oak — " Woodman, spare that tree ! Cut not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." Very similar to this did many regard the demolition of the old church ; but as the circumstances were... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 páginas
...far-famed song — a close copy, as to its idea, of Thomas Campbell's " Beechen Tree's Petition :" " Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! ' In youth it shelter'cl me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There,... | |
 | Elizabeth Lloyd - 1876 - 156 páginas
...wail " ? What kind of pictures hang there ? Where are the " gates of light "f Who was Alice Cary ? WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. Woodman, spare that tree!...woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. When but an idle boy I sought its grateful shade ; In all their gushing joy Here, too, my sisters played.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 páginas
...ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I 'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THOMAS HOOD. WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree...not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now. 'T was my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 296 páginas
...banner proud, And it was his martial cloak and shroud ! Henry Wadiworth Longfellow. Blooming dale, NY WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree...not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I '11 protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it... | |
 | William Swinton - 1877 - 278 páginas
...with its antecedent fools, according to Kule IX. It is in the nominative case according to Rule I." 8. Woodman, spare that tree; Touch not a single bough;...my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; Then, woodman, let it stand; Thy axe shall harm it not.—3/oirfa. APPLIED SYNTAX OF HULK IX. Special... | |
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 páginas
...even when the matter is approached in a spirit of due reverence, may well be disposed to cry— " 0 woodman ! spare that tree. Touch not a single bough....In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." Such Christians, our best Christians, may well have been moved to bitter scorn and wrath by unmannerly... | |
 | C. G. Wade - 1877 - 236 páginas
...Alma Mater's " pride, Shake off thy only vices, The sins of wounded pride. " Then, woodman, spare this tree, Touch not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now ! " The church still left, O woodman, Eelentless, pause awhile ; Touch not her branches, rude man,... | |
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