 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
 | Arthur Dayton Cromwell - 1915 - 394 pages
...hot coals; the very ground Was burned to ashes; in the orchard fed Myriads of caterpillars, and round The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. This you say is just a flight of the imagination, but I answer that its truth is equal to its poetry... | |
 | Arthur Dayton Cromwell - 1915 - 392 pages
...burned to ashes; in the orchard fed Myriads of caterpillars, and round The cultivated fields and fiarden beds Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. This you say is just a flight of the imagination, but I answer that its truth is equal to its poetry... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 pages
...; in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around The cultivated fields and garden beds 190 Hosts of devouring insects crawled, and found No foe...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade. Devoured by worms, like Herod, was the town, Because, like Herod, it had ruthlessly 195 Slaughtered... | |
 | James Stewart Grim - 1916 - 540 pages
...burnt to ashes ; in the orchard fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around HOW BIRDS HAVE BEEN STUDIED 351 The cultivated fields and garden beds, Hosts of devouring...had made, The land a desert, without leaf or shade." It is believed that if it were not for the birds, successful agriculture would not be possible. They... | |
 | Anna May Irwin Lütkenhaus, Margaret Knox - 1917 - 208 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... | |
 | James Ozro Engleman - 1918 - 336 pages
...and ended in a " very St. Bartholomew of Birds." Summer came, and all the birds were dead ; ". . . in the orchards fed Myriads of caterpillars, and around...had made The land a desert without leaf or shade." Audubon societies are therefore trying everywhere to get children to become acquainted with birds,... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 pages
...414 HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 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... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 pages
...and around The cultivated fields and garden beds Hosts of devouring insects .crawled, and found '9o 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... | |
 | Edwin Bradley Richards - 1919 - 170 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... | |
 | Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 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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