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Harper's School Speaker: Arbor day. Memorial day
Harper's School Speaker Arbor day Memorial day Author:James Baldwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Inverted in the tide Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw, And the fair trees look over, side by side, And see themselves below. Sweet Apri... more »l, many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed. ?H. W. Longfellow. SPRING. When brighter suns and milder skies Proclaim the opening year, What various sounds of joy arise! What prospects bright appear! Earth and her thousand voices give Their thousand notes of praise; And all, that by his mercy live, To God their offering raise. Forth walks the laborer to his toil, And sees the fresh array Of verdure clothe the flowery soil Along his careless way. The streams, all beautiful and bright Eeflect the morning sky; And there, with music in his flight, The wild bird soars on high. ? W. 0. B. Peabody. AN APEIL DAY. All day the low-hung clouds have dropped Their garnered fulness down; All day that soft, gray mist hath wrapped Hill, valley, grove, and town. There has not been a sound to-day To break the calm of Nature; Nor motion, I might almost say, Of life, or living creature; Of waving bough, or warbling bird, Or cattle faintly lowing; I could have half believed I heard The leaves and blossoms growing. I stood to hear?I love it well? The rain's continuous sound; Small drops, but thick and fast they fell, Down straight into the ground. For leafy thickness is not yet Earth's naked breast to screen; Though every dripping branch is set With shoots of tender green. Sure, since I looked at early morn, Those honeysuckle buds Have swelled to double growth; that thorn Hath put forth larger studs. That lilac's cleaving cones have burst, The milk...« less