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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: That welcome was a blast and ban Upon thy race unborn. Was there no seer, thou fated Man ! Thy lavish zeal to warn ? Thou in thy fearless faith didst hail A weak, invading band, But who shall heed thy children's wail, Swept from their native land ? Thou gav'st the riches of thy streams, The lordship o'er thy waves, The region of thine infant dreams, And of ihy fathers' graves, But who to yon proud mansions pil'd With wealth of earth and sea, Poor outcast from thy forest wild, Say, who shall welcome thee 1 DEATH AMONG THE TREES. Death walketh in the forest. The tall pines Do woo the lightning-flash, and through their veins The fire-cup, darting, leaves their blackened trunks A tablet, for ambition's eons to read Their destiny. The oak, that centuries spared, Grows grey at last, and like some time-worn man Stretching out palsied arms, doth feebly cope With the destroyer, while its gmrl'd roots Betray their trust. The towering elm turns pale, And faintly strews the sere and yellow leafj While from its dead arms falls the wedded vine. The sycamore uplifts a beacon brow, Denuded of its honors, and the blast, Swaying the withered willow, rudely asks For its lost grace, and for its tissued leaf, With silver lined. I knew that blight might check The sapling, ere kind Nature's hand could weave Its first spring-coronal, and that the worm, Coiling itself amid our garden plants, Did make their unborn buds its sepulchre. And well I knew how wild and wrecking winds Might take the forest-monarchs by the crown, And lay them with the lowliest vassal-herb; And that the axe, with its sharp ministry, Might, in one hour, such revolution work, As all Earth's boasted power could never hope To re-instate. And I had seen the flame Go crackling up, amid...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217657426
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217657427
  • Publisher Date: 14 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr


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