The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) / or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

by William Hone

NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.

Mean Temperature 55·32.

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“Beneath the shelter of the silent elm,
His native elm (to sapience still a friend)
Merones loves, and meditates beneath
The verdure of thy leaves: see there
How silently he sits! and lost in thought,
Weighs in his mind some great design! revolves
He now his Subtile Fluxions? or displays
By truest signs the Sphere’s Projection wide?
Wide as thy sphere, Merones, be thy fame.”

See a poem on the old Elm at Hurworth, in Gent. Mag. for May, 1756.

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