Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . e, The fruit of the apple-tree. 6. The fruitage of this apple-treeWinds and our flag of stripe and starShall bear to coasts that lie afar,Where men shall wonder at the viewAnd ask in what fair groves they grew; And they who roam beyond the seaShall think of childhoods careless dayAnd long hours passed in summer play In the shade of the apple-tree. 7. But time shall waste this
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . e, The fruit of the apple-tree. 6. The fruitage of this apple-treeWinds and our flag of stripe and starShall bear to coasts that lie afar,Where men shall wonder at the viewAnd ask in what fair groves they grew; And they who roam beyond the seaShall think of childhoods careless dayAnd long hours passed in summer play In the shade of the apple-tree. 7. But time shall waste this ! when its aged branches throwTheir shadows on the world below,Shall fraud and force and iron willOppress the weak and helpless still ? What shall the task of mercy beAmid the toils, the strifes, the tearsOf those who live when length of years Is wasting this apple-tree . 8. Who planted this old apple-tree .-The children of that distant day Thus to some aged man shall say; And, gazing on its mossy stem. The gray-haired man shall answer them : A poet of the land was in the rude but good old times;Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes On planting the apple-tree. XXVIII. THOMAS CARLYLE. 1795-.
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