Excerpt from Souvenir Verse and Story: Memorial of Fifty YearsThere trees will spring from them, to blossom 'and bear the golden fruit of paradise-german Poem.Scatter the germs of the beautiful, By the wayside let them fall, That the rose may spring by the cottage And the vine on the garden wall.Cover the rough and the rude of earth With a veil of leaves and ¿owers, And strew with the opening bud and cup The path of the summer hours.Scatter the germs of the beautiful In the holy shrine of home Let the pure, the fair and the graceful In their loveliest luster come, Leave not a trace of deformity In the temple of the heart, But gather about its hearth the gems Of nature and of art.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.