Under the Apple-Trees
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1916
- Publisher
- Wildside Pr
- Retrieved
- Jan 28, 2012
- ISBN
- 4Ul2OKfHkC
2 memes from this reference
Rocks as War Veterans
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast stone brigades during the ice age; they have been torn from the hills, recruited from the mountaintops, and marshaled on the plains and in the valleys; and now the elemental war is…
Thoughts on a Collapsing Wall
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of…