These misty forests of white and black and red and chestnut oak that drop their acorns around me as I go, and fill the air with sad fragrance premonitory of their decay, bring to my mind, I know not why, the Assyrian dwarf-oak that is said to secrete manna, from whose branches it is gathered in quantities. During foggy weather the manna is distilled
Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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- 1906
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on the rocks and even on the sand, as here the acorns, agate-brown and black, are showered over the ways—mast that is manna to many things, birds and beasts and, perhaps, men.