. Moral emblems & other poems written and illustrated with woodcuts . Ill THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES The first pine to the second said : My leaves are black, my branches red ; I stand upon this moor of mine, A hoar, unconquerable pine. The second sniffed and answered : Pooh !I am as good a pine as you. Discourteous tree, the first replied, The tempest in my boughs had cried,The hunter slumbered in my shade,A hundred years ere you were made. The second smiled as he returned : I shall be here when you are burned. So far dissension ruled the turned on each a frowning air, 45 When flickering
. Moral emblems & other poems written and illustrated with woodcuts . Ill THE DISPUTATIOUS PINES The first pine to the second said : My leaves are black, my branches red ; I stand upon this moor of mine, A hoar, unconquerable pine. The second sniffed and answered : Pooh !I am as good a pine as you. Discourteous tree, the first replied, The tempest in my boughs had cried,The hunter slumbered in my shade,A hundred years ere you were made. The second smiled as he returned : I shall be here when you are burned. So far dissension ruled the turned on each a frowning air, 45 When flickering from the bank anigh,A flight of martens met their their course they watched ; and thenThey nodded off to sleep again. 46. IV THE TRAMPS Now long enough had day King Apollo Palinured,Seaward he steers his panting team,And casts on earth his latest gleam. But see ! the Tramps with jaded eyeTheir destined provinces through the hills their way they took,Long camped beside the mountain brook ;Tis over; now with rising hopeThey pause upon the downward slope,And as their aching bones they anxious captain scans the west. So paused Alaric on the Alps And ciphered up the Roman scalps. 49
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