...with which we have to do. It arrives at maturity, seems to defy time, but slowly falls to decay. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays." The ivy-crowned pinnacle and tottering dome, attractions to the curious, remain from year to year,...

...strength, is most appropriately applied to it, as it is superior to every other tree for durability. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots...stays, Supreme in state ; and in three more decays." It is said that the hills of southern Judea are covered to the summit with prickly oaks, and that the...

...There are twenty-six species. An eminent poet of former days thus describes this noble tree : — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots...up, and spreads by slow degrees ; Three centuries be grows, and three he stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays.'' The following account,...

...apparently sound, when the bricks were crumbling to pieces. I have read a description of the oak — Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more he dies. Sir Robert Walpole planted with his own hands many of the magnificent trees now the pride...

...&c. This is a translation of some lines of Ovid, by Dryden : — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees : Three centuries he grows, nod three he stays. Supreme in state ; and in three more decays." The authority for this is E. Bysshe's...

...by succession live ! That individuals die, his will ordains, The propagated species still remains. h ; So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet : So rivers,...

...Queries respecting the nge of trees, remind me 'of some lines of which I have been long in search — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by siow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays."...

...world is great and gay, Doth as a vapour vanish and decay. Spenser. The monarch oak Three centuries grows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays. Dryden. Each may feel increases and decays, And see now clearer, and now darker days. ****** Taught...

...succession live : That individuals die, His will ordains ; lose The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots...degrees ; Three centuries he grows, and three he stays, ioeo Supreme in state, and in three more decays : So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns...

...instances an age supposed to be not less than a thousand years : The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising up and spreads by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. Of the antiquity of the oak in the British islands, and the enormous size which our indigenous oaks...