Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri, Volume 30 |
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Page 484 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks...
Page 341 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Page 275 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 190 - O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
Page 7 - The constitution provides that "this constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any regular meeting...
Page 119 - God, from the highest to the lowest, from the richest to the poorest, from the wisest to the most ignorant, and from the oldest to the youngest.
Page 470 - Among the beautiful pictures That hang on Memory's wall, Is one of a dim old forest, That seemeth the best of all. Not for its gnarled oaks olden Dark with the mistletoe, Not for the violets golden, That sprinkle the vale below ; Not for the milk-white lilies, That lean from the fragrant...
Page 190 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 470 - In the lap of that old dim forest He lieth in peace asleep ; Light as the down of the thistle, Free as the winds that blow, We roved there, the beautiful summers, The summers of long ago...
Page 341 - the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before...