 Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy ax shall harm it not.  Home Ballads - Page 721865 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...Woodman, spare that tree 1 Touch not a single bough 1 In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his...There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not I That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea, And wouldst thou hew... | |
 | Andrew Manship - 1856 - 430 pages
...my feeling relative to the twig from this notable tree, would reprove me. I thought of the verses, "Woodman, spare that tree, Touch not a single bough, In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...given ; 'Keep thine own counsel, ami confess Thyself alone to Heaven 1" WOODMAK, BPABI THAT Tl:; r. Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot: There, woodman, let... | |
 | 1856 - 518 pages
...And soon mankind shall blench away Before the name of Attila. EDwAaD 53. WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 pages
...Woodman, spare that tree I Touch not a single bough I In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. "Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand; Thy ax shall harm it not. 7. That old, familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea,—... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 690 pages
...is not forgotten. We remember it still, and love it ; and from our souls bless the poet who sung ' WOODMAN, spare that tree, Touch not a single bough : In youth it sheltered me, And I '11 protect it now.' Touch it not with the sacrilegious axe, for every stem, leaf, and bough... | |
 | Howard Paul - 1857 - 144 pages
...wept their decline. 51 PASTOEAL AND EUEAL. WOODMAN! SPARE THAT TREE.* GP MORRIs. [JAufc ty B. Kuuell. WOODMAN, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot, There, -woodman, let... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...— Yea, heedless though it mix with theirs ! " PRAED (altered) LXXXHL — WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree — touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, and I '11 protect it now. 'T was my forefather's hand that placed it near his cot ; There, woodman,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 738 pages
...forgotten. We remember it still, and love it ; and from our souls bless the poet who sung ' WOODMAX, spare that tree, Touch not a single bough : In youth it sheltered me, And I '11 protect it now.' Touch it not with the sacrilegious axe, for every stem, leaf, and bough... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - 1857 - 352 pages
...to wound, I would say to them, in sober earnestness, no matter at whom you aim your battle-ax, 'Oh ! woodman spare that tree, Touch not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered thee, Thou shouldst protect it now. That old familiar tree, "Whose glory and renown Are famed o'er... | |
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