Meehans' Monthly: A Magazine of Horticulture, Botany and Kindred Subjects, Volume 6

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Thomas Meehan & Sons, 1896

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Page 7 - Then came old January, wrapped well In many weeds to keep the cold away; Yet did he quake and quiver, like to quell, And blowe his nayles to warme them if he may; For they were numbd with holding all the day An hatchet keene, with which he felled wood And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray: Upon an huge great Earth-pot steane he stood, From whose wide mouth there flowed forth the Romane Flood.
Page 8 - The full Rose waxed in the warm June air, And she spread and spread till her heart lay bare; And she laughed once more as she heard his tread — "He is older now! He will soon be dead!
Page 58 - Summer's green-emblazoned field, But in arms of brave old Autumn's wearing, In the centre of his brazen shield ; Not alone in meadows and green alleys, On the mountain-top, and by the brink Of...
Page 3 - Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Page 58 - Everywhere about us are they glowing, Some like stars, to tell us Spring is born; Others, their blue eyes with tears o'erflowing, Stand like Ruth amid the golden corn...
Page 59 - Little Willie from his mirror Sucked the mercury all off, Thinking, in his childish error. It would cure his whooping cough. " At the funeral, Willie's mother Smartly said to Mrs. Brown, ' 'Twas a chilly day for William When the mercury went down.
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Page 59 - s here a laugh and it 's there a tear, Till the treasured book is read ; And the ashes betwixt the pages here Tell us of one long dead. But the gracious presence reappears As we read the book again, And the fragrance of precious, distant years Filleth the hearts of men. Come, pluck with me in my garden nooks The posies that bloom for all; Oh, sweet is the smell of my old, old books In their places against the wall...
Page 29 - ... be to ferret out and bring to punishment all persons who, either wilfully or otherwise, cause the burning of timber lands, and to take measures to have such fires extinguished where it cau be done ; the expenses thereof to be paid out of the county treasury, the unseated land tax to be the first applied to such expenses.
Page 8 - He is older now ! He will soon be dead ! " But the breeze of the morning blew, and found That the leaves of the blown Rose strewed the ground ; And he came at noon, that Gardener old, And he raked them gently under the mould.

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