For beautiful variety no crop can be compared with this. Here is not merely the plain yellow of the grains, but nearly all the col...ors that we know, the brightest blue not excepted: the early blushing maple, the poison sumach blazing its sins as scarlet, the mulberry ash, the rich chrome yellow of the poplars, the brilliant red huckleberry, with which the hills' backs are painted, like those of sheep. The frost touches them, and, with the slightest breath of returning day or jarring of earth's axle, see in what showers they come floating down! The ground is all parti-colored with them. But they still live in the soil, whose fertility and bulk they increase, and in the forests that spring from it. They stoop to rise, to mount higher in coming years, by subtle chemistry, climbing by the sap in the trees; and the sapling's first fruits thus shed, transmuted at last, may adorn its crown, when, in after years, it has become the monarch of the forest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name.... She asked her father and he told her, "Maple Maple is right."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once they came on a maple in a glade, Standing alone with smooth arms lifted up,... And every leaf of foliage she'd worn Laid scarlet and pale pink about her feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The narcissus has copied the arch of your slight breast:... your feet are citron-flowers, your knees, cut from white-ash, your thighs are rock-cistus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure,... though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natives of another hemisphere, they beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest. The landscape before... them was fair, if it was strange and rude. The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms, might attract even eyes as stern as theirs with its humble beauty. The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air. The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men. The majestic summits of Wachusett and Monadnoc towering in the horizon, invited the steps of the adventure westward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »