"Did you ever see a palm tree waving in New York; or daisy bushes as tall as a man; or such masses of roses and flowering vines?

And here are little boats, and there Big ships with sails spread to the breeze; And yonder, palm trees waving fair On islands set in silver seas, And butterflies with gauzy wings; And herds of cows and flocks of sheep; And fruit and flowers and all the things You see when you are sound asleep.

Magnolias and palm trees wave their heads proudly, while bananas, oranges, and bread fruit abound in rank profusion.

Then we began to sing of the spring-time, and I found myself a green tree waving its branches in the wind.

Flocks play, trees wave, streams flow, the mountain fir Nodding above; behold Black Acheron!

But if, as I hope, the reader has no objection to an occasional interlude of verse in all this prose, I will copy for him here the poem I wrote next morningit being always easier to tell the strict truth in poetry rather than in prose: At evening I came to the wood, and threw myself on the breast Of the great green mother, weeping, and the arms of a thousand trees Waved and rustled in welcome, and murmured: "Restrestrest!

Over the roof of the factory he saw the tops of tall trees waving.

So, the storm subsides to calm; They see the green trees wave On the heights o'erlooking Grève.

I SIN I From her bed Hilda could see the trees waving in the wind.

Our bark, unseen, has reach'd th' appointed bay, And, where yon trees wave o'er the foaming surge, Reclines against the shore: our Grecian troop Extends its lines along the sandy beach, Elate with hope, and panting for a foe.

The sky was blue and bright as that of Eden, and the bright trees waved over me like gorgeous banners from the hilltops.

And as the tree waved its plume in the night-wind, and the bird swayed on the moving twig, and the gas-lamp burned meekly and patiently beyond, I seemed to catch in these simple things a glimpse of the secret meaning of human existence, such as one gets sometimes, startlingly, in a mood of idle receptiveness.

"Page, what sound mine ears is greeting, Whence the lime-trees wave in pride?" "'Tis, sir knight, the herds that bleating, Wander o'er the mountain's side.

"What a tranquil little kitchen it was, with a glimpse of the courtyard outside, and the cocks and hens, and the poplar trees waving in the sunshine, and the old woman sitting in her white cap busy at her homely work."

On land only the grass and trees wave, but the water itself is rippled by the wind.

The trees waved in the wind like censers, the flowers, pale and languid with an anaemic beauty, smelt of incense, as though the air wafted through the doors of the Cathedral had changed their natural perfumes.

The tents were found to be so cold, that a gentleman who afterwards joined the party slept in his palanquin; they were subsequently removed, and now the palm-tree waves its broad leaves over the lonely hill, and the prowling jackal seeks his meal elsewhere.

"What a tranquil little kitchen it was, with a glimpse of the courtyard outside, and the cocks and hens, and the poplar trees waving in the sunshine, and the old woman sitting in her white cap busy at her homely work."