 I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through...  Reading with Expression: First-- Reader - Page 250by James Baldwin, Ida Catherine Bender - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy! " О for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw; Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played. Plied the snouted mole his spade; For... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1861 - 340 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ;... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...joy. Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O.for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for ! I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ;... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1867 - 432 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ;... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 276 pages
...Blessings on the barefoot boy ! 3. O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for ; — I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ;... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...joy, Blessings on the barefoot boy! 0, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1868 - 430 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! O, for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, When all things I heard or saw, Me, their master, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ;... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1853 - 322 pages
...things I heard or saw, ''e, their masler, waited for. I was rich in flowers and trees, Humming hirds and honey bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1893 - 564 pages
...interpretations put upon the following: "Oh, for boyhood's time of June Crowding years in one brief noon. When all things I heard or saw Me, their master, waited for." Were the thought put into the prose order, no difficulty whatever would be experienced; but inversions,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...— Blessings on the barefoot boy ! Ó for boyhood's time of June, Crowding years in one brief moon, Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade ;... | |
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