 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
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 738 pages
...and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found 190 No 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... | |
 | Alvin Davison - 1906 - 376 pages
...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...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade." A careful study of the birds emphasizes the necessity of making children familiar with their value,... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1906 - 942 pages
...caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled and fcund No foe to- check their march till they had made The land a desert without leaf or shade." If we could only get rid of the English sparrow our own native birds would have some chance to live.... | |
 | 1906 - 614 pages
...ground Was burned to ashes ; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars and around The culticatcd fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found No foe to check their inarch, till they had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like 1 tcrod.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 116 pages
...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...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 - 1907 - 226 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... | |
 | Max Kaluza - 1909 - 418 pages
...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...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. (Longfellow, The Birds of Killingworth.) § 248. Das Sonett im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Unter den aus... | |
 | Waitman Barbe - 1909 - 252 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... | |
 | Natural History Society of New Brunswick, St. John - 1909 - 472 pages
...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...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. And, of course, Killingworth had to recall its decision. In the next year birds were imported from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 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... | |
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