 | Charles Dana Wilber - 1881 - 520 pages
...»•*>••-;;1 mltvK Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleagured by the sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the...of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the flist solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture... | |
 | Alvin Howard Sanders - 1900 - 1040 pages
...are obliterated. Forests decay, barves's perish, flowers vanish, but grass la Immortal. BfInagured by the sullen hosts of winter It withdraws Into the...Impregnable fortress of Its subterranean vitality &cd emerges upon the solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by wandering birds, propagauid by the... | |
 | Howard Louis Conard - 1901 - 810 pages
...grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes, and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish,...of its subterranean vitality and emerges upon the solicitations of spring. Sown by the winds, by wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture... | |
 | John James Ingalls - 1902 - 552 pages
...grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish,...Beleaguered by the sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws inta the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and emerges upon the first solicitation... | |
 | 1902 - 424 pages
...grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. . . . Banished from the thoroughfare and the field, it bides its time to return, and when vigilance... | |
 | 1915 - 534 pages
...with grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish,...first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle agriculture of the elements which are its ministers and... | |
 | Robert Love Taylor - 1907 - 410 pages
...obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish; but grass is immortal; beleaguered by sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable...first solicitation of spring. Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of the elements which are its ministers... | |
 | Robert Love Taylor - 1907 - 396 pages
...grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish,...flowers vanish; but grass is immortal; beleaguered by sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality, and... | |
 | 1907 - 902 pages
...with grass, and carnage Is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become Brass-grown like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass Is Immortal. Beleagrured by the sullen hosts of winter, It withdraws into the impregnable fortress of its subterranean... | |
 | Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station - 1908 - 884 pages
...grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers...vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleaguered by the seven hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortresses of its subterranean vitality and... | |
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Grass is the forgiveness of Nature — her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass, and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like... 
