[254] Ibid.
[255] Ibid.
[256] Star, Nov. 3, 1736
August 14.
S. Eusebius, 3rd Cent. St. Eusebius, Priest.
It is stated in The Times, on the authority of an “Evening Paper,” that two beautiful old trees in Nottingham park during the hot weather (of July and August, 1825,) shed all their leaves, and were as completely stripped as they are usually in November. Their appearance afterwards was more surprising. Wet weather came, they put forth new leaves and were as fully clothed in August as they were before the long season of the dry hot weather.
THE WITHERED LEAF.
Sever’d from thy slender stalk,
Wither’d wand’rer! knowest thou?
Would’st thou tell, if leaves might talk,
Whence thou art?—Where goest thou?
Nothing know I!—tempests’ strife
From the proud oak tore me;
Broke my every tie to life,
Whelm’d the tree that bore me.