 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...far-famed song — a close copy, as to its idea, of Thomas Campbell's " Beechen Tree's Petition :" " Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! ' In youth it shelter'cl me, And I'll protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There,... | |
 | Elizabeth Lloyd - 1876 - 154 pages
...pictures hang there ? Where are the " gates of light " f Who was Alice Gary ? 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 it stand, Thy axe shall... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 pages
...To know I 'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THOMAS HOOD. WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now. 'T was my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 296 pages
...martial cloak and shroud ! Henry Wadiworth Longfellow. Blooming dale, NY WOODMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. WOODMAN, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I '11 protect it now. 'Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it... | |
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pages
...even when the matter is approached in a spirit of due reverence, may well be disposed to cry— " 0 woodman ! spare that tree. Touch not a single bough....In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." Such Christians, our best Christians, may well have been moved to bitter scorn and wrath by unmannerly... | |
 | Will Converse Wood - 1877 - 404 pages
...with the Bible and moral instruction in it, the heritage received from the venerated fathers, — " 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 axe shall... | |
 | William Swinton - 1877 - 278 pages
...with its antecedent fools, according to Kule IX. It is in the nominative case according to Rule I." 8. 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; Then, woodman, let it stand; Thy axe shall... | |
 | C. G. Wade - 1877 - 236 pages
...Alma Mater's " pride, Shake off thy only vices, The sins of wounded pride. " Then, woodman, spare this tree, Touch not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now ! " The church still left, O woodman, Eelentless, pause awhile ; Touch not her branches, rude man, Heed not... | |
 | 1878 - 924 pages
...prosperity under the old order, and protest, therefore, against its being superseded by a new." " Oh woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough...In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now." ' To the men amongst us who have been successful, I would say, do not suffer your success to tempt... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 pages
...mirth of its December, And the warmth of its July. / remember, I remember. GEORGE P. MORRIS. 1802-1864. Woodman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough...In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. Woodman, spare that Tree. (1830.) 1 O leave this barren spot to me ! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen... | |
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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 axe shall harm it not! That old familiar tree, Whose glory... 
