...improves with the age of the tree. The oak attains to a great age. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads, by slow degrees...stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays. Dry den. Among the Romans, there were various kinds of crowns distributed as rewards of military achievements....

...marks of antiquity as the oaks and yews of England, where " the monarch oak Three centuries he irrows, and three he stays Supreme in state, and in three more decays.'' Each tree, as it attains its prime, begins to decay, and, soon dying, falls prostrate to enrich the...

...A pair of them were hawking for flies over the river Thames in the neighbourhood of Old Windsor. ' The monarch Oak, the patriarch of trees, ' Shoots...stays ' Supreme in state ; and in three more decays.' DRYDEN. AMIDST ' the crowd, the hum, the shock of ' men,' I frequently long to ' converse with Na'...

...A pair of them were hawking for flies over the river Thames in the neighbourhood of Old Windsor. ' The monarch Oak, the patriarch of trees, ' Shoots...stays ' Supreme in state ; and in three more decays.' DRYDEN. AMIDST ' the crowd, the hum, the shock of ' men,' I frequently long to ' converse with Na'...

...the poet Dryden's praise, who estimates its continuance at nine hundred years, when he sings — " The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, Shoots rising...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays." Other oaks of this kind, though less remarkable for their size, are common in many parts of the country,...

...die, his will ordains ; The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees;...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays ; So wears the paving pebble in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet : So rivers,...

...species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads hy slow degrees; Three centuries he grows, and three...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays ; So wears the' paving pehhle in the street, And towns and towers their fatal periods meet : So rivers,...

...ordains, The propagated species still remains. Til-- monarch oak. the patriarch of the trees, Sii'f »;* Disdain'd to enter in so late. Love slays, Supreme in stale, and in throe more decays ; So wears ilie paving pebble in the street, Anil...

...die, his will ordains, The propagated species still remains. The monarch oak, the patriarch of the d a Pa @C ; So wears the paving pebble in the street. And towns and towers their fatal periods meet : So rivers,...

...at maturity, seems to defy time, but slowly falls to decay. " The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees...stays, Supreme in state, and in three more decays." The ivy-crowned pinnacle and tottering dome, attractions to the curious, remain from year to year,...