...Nature-study Agriculture: A Textbook for Beginners

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World book Company, 1920 - 332 Seiten

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Seite 235 - Stupidity Street I SAW with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat ; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.
Seite 142 - GREAT, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast — World, you are beautifully drest.
Seite 1 - Soul homely, as thou art, yet rich in grace like thee, Teaching the yeomen selfless chivalry That moves in gentle curves of courtesy; Soul filled like thy long veins with sweetness tense, By every godlike sense Transmuted from, the four wild elements. Drawn to high plans, Thou lift'st more stature than a mortal man's, Yet ever piercest downward in the...
Seite 220 - You call them thieves and pillagers ; but know, They are the winged wardens of your farms, Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe, And from your harvests keep a hundred harms; Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail, And crying havoc on the slug and snail.
Seite 62 - Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree ; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're ^sleeping...
Seite 272 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one...
Seite 22 - The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.
Seite 189 - And a mailed man is afraid of him : He comes like a winged shape of dread, With his shielded back and his armed head, And his double wings for hasty flight, And a keen, unwearying appetite. He comes with famine and fear along, An army a million million strong ; The Goth and the Vandal, and dwarfish Hun, With their swarming people wild and dun, Brought not the dread that the Locust brings, When is heard the rush of their myriad wings.
Seite 38 - Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...

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