The Fly-aways and Other Seed Travelers

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Public-school Publishing Company, 1909 - Botany - 186 pages

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Page 181 - You, friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat fields that nod, and the rivers that flow, With cities, and gardens, and cliffs, and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles? Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all; And yet, when I said my prayer to-day, A whisper within me seemed to say : "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot; You can love and think; and the Earth can not.
Page 120 - He put his acorn helmet on ; It was plumed of the silk of the thistle down : The corslet plate that guarded his breast Was once the wild bee's golden vest ; His cloak, of a thousand mingled dyes, Was formed of the wings of butterflies ; His shield was the shell of a lady-bug queen, Studs of gold on a ground of green ; And the quivering lance which he brandished bright, Was the sting of a wasp he had slain in fight.
Page 181 - You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot : You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
Page 120 - It need it ere the night be gone. He put his acorn helmet on; It was plumed of the silk of the thistle-down; The corselet plate that guarded his breast Was once the wild bee's golden vest; His cloak, of a thousand mingled dyes, Was formed of the wings of butterflies; His shield was the shell of a lady-bug queen, Studs of gold on a ground of green; And the quivering lance which he brandished...
Page 136 - What do the leaves say in the storm, Tossed in rustling heaps together? — "We must keep the violets warm, Till they wake in fairer weather.
Page 14 - CHILD: 0 dandelion, yellow as gold, What do you do all night? DANDELION : I wait and wait till the cool dews fall And my hair grows long and white. CHILD : And what do you do when your hair is white, And the children come to play? DANDELION: They take me up in their dimpled hands, And blow my hair away. — Selected. Two pupils read the poem, one repeating what the child said, the other repeating what the dandelion said. When two or more persons talk together in this way, what do we call the conversation?...
Page 3 - PLANT In the heart of a seed, Buried deep, so deep! A dear little plant Lay fast asleep! "Wake!" said the sunshine, "And creep to the light!
Page 19 - Peeping, peeping, here and there, In lawns and meadows everywhere, Coming up to find the spring, And hear the robin redbreast sing; Creeping under children's feet, Glancing at the violets sweet, Growing into tiny bowers, For the dainty meadow flowers : — We are small, but think a minute Of a world with no grass in it!
Page 39 - Thistledown, Thistledown, where do you float, Hither and yon like a fairy queen's boat? Take me to ride in your shallop, I pray — I'm light as the air, I'm so happy to-day!
Page 109 - ... the year, and small children will enjoy observing the different ways provided for giving them a start. Many pictures from photographs are given in the book. We are obliged to omit the illustrations of this chapter as the paper used in the journal does not give a clear impression of halftone cuts.] You would hardly expect seeds to jump, would you? Yet there are many of them that really do. The greater number of these need a little help, just as a boy needs a springboard to get a good start for...

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