 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 Oxford Book of American Verse - Page 41edited by - 1927 - 680 pagesFull view - About this book
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pages
...the matter is approached in a spirit of due reverence, may well be disposed to cry— " 0 woodman ! spare that tree. Touch not a single bough. In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." Such Christians, our best Christians, may well have been moved to bitter scorn and wrath by unmannerly... | |
 | C. G. Wade - 1877 - 236 pages
...Alma Mater's " pride, Shake off thy only vices, The sins of wounded pride. " Then, woodman, spare this tree, Touch not a single bough ; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now ! " The church still left, O woodman, Eelentless, pause awhile ; Touch not her branches, rude man,... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...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;/ In 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1892 - 718 pages
...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... | |
 | Arthur G. Adams - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...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...woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. II That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown *Poems By George P. Morris, (New York: Charles Scribner,... | |
 | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Mormons - 1899 - 472 pages
...standing, and he wrote the following beautiful lines on the subject: "Woodman, spare the tree; Cut not one single bough; In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect...placed It near his cot, There woodman let It stand; Thy ax shall harm It not." GEN. SUPT. GEORGE Q. CANNON. Made the closing address as follows: There are... | |
 | Roger D. McGrath - History - 1987 - 314 pages
...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! In 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.... | |
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