Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-01-24

monarch of the Herne oak of parks and forests Robin Hood and
his merry Fiar Tuck excepted old baronial halls
mellow light streaming through pane upon
floors and carved oaken wainscongs And who
travelled English secondcass cusoness has other
less genial membranes of the enduring od the mpervious
unelastic oak2
One stalart oak have only yet my
west line fringe of forest through which ushes in spring.
tickles early and dies entirely August the issues
of noble spring from the hillside On the edge of
this belt of trees stands the monarchca oak Withdrawing the
toward the pasture and the free light but
side lean and branches from the pressure neghborng
trees like cannot the real that in them when
crowded by much society Both be
side by and air. and by nothing ele if they be rounded
into full symmetry. Growing right up through
its branches long wey elmbeauy grace mbosomed by
strength Their leaves and together and all the
long they mnge their rusng harmone Their pasture
the SOIL could either them be hew down without
ing away branches mang beauty And
when thoroughly dsbranched by time and regain
its health again, but never its beauty.
Thus do you stand noble ems Lifted up high are your
topmos bough that ndoent birds seek YOU and only
those nmbe wings and they with unwonted beat that love
tion and aspire sing where sing hgherAspiraton
Heaven gives pure flames the noble BOSOM But debased
with passion and selfshness it to be only Ambition!
in the presence of this pastueem which the
Queen that first felt very that had indeed be-
of the SOIL 1t with feeling that
looked face and when whispered myself "This
there shrinking as there sacrege in the thought
of properly such of God this cahedaopped tree!
Does bare his head old church, So did standing
in the shadow this regal and looking up that completed
glory which three hundred years had been work with noees
fingers What in its but grasshopper My heart
said 81 call thee property and that property mine Thou
belongest the Thou the child Thou the
mighty temple where birds God Thou beonges mans
hand but all mems eyes that do love beauty that have
learned through beauty behold God Stand then thine
beauty grandeur shall be lover and protector keep
drought from thy roots and the axe from thy trunk.
For emorsee there crawling yet upon the of
of
that is food for the and the saw These the
wreches of whom the Scripture speaks 81 famous
eo,aing as he had lifted Mp ares upon the thick hrss
Thus rather infamous the
fore this farm Upon the of the hill just where
artist would have planted them had he wished have them
act the right place grew hundred wa and ancient
naples, beeches ashes and oaks beke forest forming
from the northern and western winds winter and harp
of endless music for the The weched this
tempted the Devil down the whole blessed band and brother
hood of that he might fill his pocket with pfu dollars
cord for the wood Well his pocket the best part him. The
furnaces have devoured and their huge stump that
stood like gaveones have been cleared that grove be
planted the spot for the hundred years nouh
the and glory Of that which gone
In other places, find the memorials many
here hemock that carried green hundred
the winter air. there huge doubeunked chestnut dear old
grandfather of hundreds of children that have for generations
dubbed its boughs shook its nuaden top and laughed and
shouted bushels chesnuts ratified down. Now the
only in the form of loopedhoed posts and rails
do hope the fellow got silver in his fingers he
touched the hemock plank let down the bars made of those
chestnut rails
To people grove is grove and all groves alike
But two groves alike There marked difference be-
different between different communities. grove
pines without underbush capeted with the hncngered
of the pine and odoous of gums has scarcely
of likeness maple woods either in the insects the BIRDS
shrubs the light shade the
lived in odn times young myhooge should that
pines imprisoned spirit water-nymph and
that their sounds of the for whose lucid depths they al