Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 669
still on the tree. 1130 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Oct., sunshine seems to sleep on the hillsides andbroad fields, while the still hours succeed eachother at such times with calmness and serenity.Lowell recalled such a day when he wrote : One morn of Autumnlords it oer therest,When in the… … THE LEAF SCAR OF THEHICKORY. The broken surface on bothbranch and base of leaf-stalkshows the wondy fibres brokenthrough as little rounded pro-jections. In these lines thepoet suggests the variety of motions whichthe leaves describe as they journey down-ward and these movements might wellbe chosen…
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