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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... "
The Inland Educator: A Journal for the Progressive Teacher - Page 167
1897
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The Sunday Magazine, Volume 7

1877 - 996 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...prosperity under the old order, and protest, therefore, against its being superseded by a new."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...
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Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List

Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 pages
...is a sentimental American song with words by George P. Morris and music by Henry Russell. It begins, "Woodman, spare that tree!/ Touch not a single bough;/...youth it sheltered me,/ And I'll protect it now." For words and music, see Helen K. Johnson, Our Familiar Songs, pp. 25-28. 327.34/322.2 rvYTOD, HOLLYBERRIES...
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Proceedings ..., Volume 48

New York State Bar Association - 1925 - 546 pages
...suckers have grown up and has been infested with scale. The fundamentalist looks at the tree and says, " Woodman, spare that tree ; touch not a single bough, In youth it sheltered me I'll not disturb it now." " No matter if its fruit is somewhat gnarly and small, if it is not useful...
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Snowmobiles and Other Off-road Vehicles: Hearing, Ninety ..., Volumes 8-13

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation - 1971 - 124 pages
...ways of doing this. At one time, to quote from an Ontario publication, the philosophy was, 'Woodsman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, and I'll protect it now'. "The province goes on to say, 'The old way of growing trees, of letting nature take its course, was never...
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Snowmobiles and Other Off-road Vehicles: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs - 1971 - 120 pages
...ways of doing this. At one time, to quote from an Ontario publication, the philosophy was, 'Woodsman, spare that tree ! Touch not a single bough ! In youth it sheltered me, and I'll protect it now'. "The province goes on to say, "The old way of growing trees, of letting nature take its course, was never...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 100

1926 - 1014 pages
...AVENUE, LONDON, WC 2. Bankers: WBSTIIINSTBR BANK, 214, High Holborn. WC 2. Xll hristn\as John Bull— Woodman, spare that Tree ! Touch not a single bough ; In youth It sheltered me, And 1*11 protect It now. Is there not a cause ? Our quiet, restful Sunda are in danger of being destroyed....
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Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce: Early Poetry through Ulysses

Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 pages
...Spare that Tree" is a magnificendy apt song for the occasion. Its maudlin ecological lyrics begin, Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough;...In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now; . . . 222 Ulysses — But what about the fighting navy, says Ned, that keeps our foes at bay ? (328...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 18; Volume 65

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1892 - 718 pages
...as when, after giving vent in his richly mellifluous and deliberate tones to the once popular lines, Woodman, spare that, tree," Touch not a single bough...In youth it sheltered me ! And I'll protect it now ! he would proceed to relate ' a little anecdote ' — how, at some house, a gentleman, standing up...
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The Hudson River in Literature: An Anthology

Arthur G. Adams - 1980 - 356 pages
...highlands where My Ida's footsteps roam: O for a falcon's wing to bear Me onward to my home! THE OAK.* I 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...
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Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier

Roger D. McGrath - 1987 - 314 pages
...his actions by reciting the poetry of George Pope Morris. Said the man to the justice of the peace: Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough!...youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. " The justice noted, however, that the man did not spare the woodpile and gave him forty days in jail. Blankets...
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