 O READER ! hast thou ever stood to see The holly tree? The eye that contemplates it well, perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an intelligence so wise As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...  Sketches of rural affairs - Page 291by Sketches - 1848 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
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...circling fence, its leaves are seen, Wrinkled and keen, T>io grazing cattle thro' their prickly round tfan reach to wound ; But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth aiid uuann'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 pages
...Its glossy leaves ; Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...wound ; But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, floating subcoriaceous ovato-lanceolate tapering into a rather short footstalk, lower ones long lanceolate... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 pages
...Its glossy leaves ; Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its -leaves are seen Wrinkled...cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound; Hut, as they grow where nothing is to four, floating subcoriaceous ovato-lanceolate tapering into a... | |
 | William Jackson Hooker - 1821 - 624 pages
...Its glossy leaves ; Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...cattle through their prickly round Can reach to wound ; Kut, as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leave* appear," &o.... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. " Behold a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkling and keen ; No grazing cattle through their prickly...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear.' BRIEF ASTRONOMICAL NOTICES, I'OR OCTOBER, 1846. BY Mu. WILLIAM... | |
 | 1830 - 492 pages
...confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; Ko grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1823 - 258 pages
...Its glossy leaves Order'd by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes, And moralize :... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...confound the atheist's sophistries. Below a circling fence its leaves are seen Wrinkled and keen ; Xo grazing cattle through their prickly round Can reach...as they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unanned the pointless leaves appear. I love to view these things with curious eyes And moralize : And... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...on its admiration, and substantiate repeated claims to its applause and gratitude. THE HOLLY TREE. " Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...Ordered by an intelligence so wise, As might confound the Atheist's sophistries. Its glossy leaves Below, a circling fence, its leaves are seen Wrinkled...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. SOUTHEY. 106 CHAPTER IV. OF THE LEAF. A PERFECT knowledge of the leaves of plants is essential to the... | |
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