| Samuel Adams Drake - 1873 - 514 страници
...spare that tree! Touch not a single bough I In youth it sheltered me, And I '11 protect it now. T was my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot ; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not." . Paddock was, in 1774, captain of the train of artillery belonging to the... | |
| Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 страници
...is a 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;/...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... | |
| New York State Bar Association - 1925 - 546 страници
...suckers have grown up and has been infested with scale. The fundamentalist looks at the tree and says, " Woodman, spare that tree ; touch not a single bough, In youth it sheltered me I'll not disturb it now." " No matter if its fruit is somewhat gnarly and small, if it is not useful... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs - 1971 - 120 страници
...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... | |
| 1926 - 1014 страници
...AVENUE, LONDON, WC 2. Bankers: WBSTIIINSTBR BANK, 214, High Holborn. WC 2. Xll hristn\as John Bull— Woodman, spare that Tree ! Touch not a single bough ; In youth It sheltered me, And 1*11 protect It now. Is there not a cause ? Our quiet, restful Sunda are in danger of being destroyed.... | |
| Zack R. Bowen - 1974 - 394 страници
...Spare 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 - 1892 - 718 страници
...as when, 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 - 1980 - 356 страници
...highlands 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 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... | |
| Roger D. McGrath - 1987 - 314 страници
...his 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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