 The Summer came, and all the birds were dead; The days were like hot coals; the very ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found...  Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ... - Page 442by United States. Department of Agriculture - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden-beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found No foe...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade." " A waggon, overarched with evergreen, Upon whose boughs were wicker cages hung, All full of singing-birds,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 738 pages
...and all the birds were dead ; The days were like hot coals ; the very ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 744 pages
...and all the birds were • dead; The days were like hot coals ; the very ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...and all the birds were dead ; The days were like hot coals ; the very ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod , it had ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 550 pages
...Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated lields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled,...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 320 pages
...Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring infects crawled, and found No foe to check their march, till...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it hath ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1894 - 748 pages
...caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found \o foe to check their march, till they had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...and all the birds were dead ; The days were like hot coala ; the very ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it hath ruthlessly Slaughtered the... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1912 - 326 pages
...around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found ! No foes to check their march, till they had made The land a desert without leaf or shade." Ownership of Animal Life. The Supreme Court of the United States, in a decision handed down in 1895,... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - 1894 - 296 pages
...and all the birds were dead ; The days were like hot coals ; the very ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. xxni. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly Slaughtered... | |
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