Across the moat the fresh west wind In very little ripples went; The way the heavy aspens bent Towards it, was a thing to mind.
Why were you more fair Than aspens in the autumn at their best?
Hard by, the sea Made a noise like the aspens where We did that wrong, but now the place Is very pleasant, and the air Blows cool on any passer's face.
There had been a starry heaven overhead, the dim outlines of the rocky gap for a back-drop, clumps of cottonwoods and aspens for side wings and for the crowning touch, two green rockets had sped skyward.
In the dim dawn he stumbled uncertainly down the trail into the cañon, the bottom of which was still black as night from a heavy growth of young aspens that shut out the light.
The trail took them past a grove of young aspens which blocked the mouth of a small cañon by the thickness of the growth.
As there are so many young aspens here in perfect security, for the beavers, Grandfather Beaver remains here.
The beavers live there until the family grows too large, then they either build another story to the house, or start a new colony where aspens can be had in plenty.
On the opposite bank several large trees had been felled and a quantity of aspens had been cut down and piled in confusion on the edge of the water.
Mr. Beaver is clearing away theaspens just as fast as he can, but as soon as they are all cut down, he will move the whole family to some other dense grove, as they live on aspens, you know.
If you were over there to examine those cut aspens you would find each one about eighteen inches long and about one and a half inches thick.
Just now they are repairing the old houses for the Winter, and that log is to be a bulwark about which green cuttings of willow and young aspens can be woven as a partial strainer for the water.
You see they must have been cutting aspens over there, when they heard us coming and so they made a dive for safety.
Passing the dizzy brink of the chasm into which Bear creek makes its awful leap, snatching a beauty beyond portrayal from the very jaws of terror, we enter a rank forest of aspens and spruces.
Pines and firs stand on the rocks, and aspens overhang the brooks.
The slopes on both sides are covered with evergreens and aspens "That twinkle to the gusty breeze.
All the world reiterating this slender truth, that aspens once grew there; and the swift inference is that men were there to see them.
The two aspens and the sugar maple come nearest to it in date, but they have lost the greater part of their leaves.
Cochetopa Creek is only a few miles ahead of us now, and if we could get that far we'd find quaking aspens that would break the worst of the storm, and we could shelter there till morning.
The mule had managed to struggle to the creek, where he and his master had sheltered among the quaking aspens until morning, the latter being in an agony of mind all night about Jack.
Here the slope was gradual, until at the head of the valley they reached a rolling plateau, with aspens here and there, and farther off higher hills, crowned by pines.
And in all of us, as well as in the aspens and the clouds and the misty patches, there was a process of evolution.
For, of the trees, that whispered so much at night, not even the aspens had voice.
And above him the chestnuts in their breathing stillness, the aspens with their tender rustling, seemed to watch and whisper: "Oh, little men!
It was a rimy October morning, and the sun rising slowly above the shadowy aspens in the graveyard, shone dimly through the transparent silver veil that hung over the landscape.
The beauty ceased staring at us and bounded away gracefully toward the aspens on the right.
Before day the next morning, the Major slipped out of his blankets, and with his Winchester started off in the direction of the aspens on the hills below and back from the camp.
Out of the black spruce slopes shone patches of aspens, gloriously red and gold, and low down along the edge of timber troops of aspens ran out into the park, not yet so blazing as those above, but purple and yellow and white in the sunshine.
He crossed the wide, grassy plain and struck another gradual descent where aspens and pines crowded a shallow ravine and warm, sun-lighted glades bordered along a sparkling brook.
What is true of these aspens is true of all the trees in the forest an' of all plant life in the forest.
It was open, with tall pines here and there, and clumps of silver spruce, and aspens shining like gold in the morning sunlight.
The little clump of aspens did not differ from hundreds Helen had seen.
Only perhaps half of these aspens will survive, to make one of the larger clumps, such as that one of full-grown trees over there.
He fell over one bank, but a thicket of aspens upheld him so that he rebounded and gained his feet.
These little aspensare fightin' for place in the sunlight.
Black spruce slopes and green pines and white streaks of aspens and lacy waterfall of foam and dark outcroppings of rock--these colors and forms greeted her gaze with all the old enchantment.
Here was hard riding to and fro across the brook, between huge mossy boulders, and between aspens so close together that Helen could scarce squeeze her knees through.
The last of the yellow leaves fell from the poplar bushes, and the silver foliage of the aspens fluttered to the ground.
VII I have been back to see the golden aspens, aspens of the road along the Duero between San Polo and San Saturio, beyond the old stiff walls of Soria, barbican towards Aragon of the Castilian lands.
Graceful aspens rustle high above you; the long-hanging branches of the birches scarcely stir; a mighty oak stands like a champion beside a lovely lime-tree.
A broad open road, planted with aspens and poplars, runs along its sleeping waters.
Farther off, under the green arcades formed by the aspens upon the road, which shook under the roll of carriages and gallop of horses, paraded the gay fashionables of Mexico.
Over the greater portion of the prairie country, indeed, forests of aspens would grow, did not annual fires in most parts arrest their progress.
The last fluttering of the aspens dying away, leaves that perfect repose in the air which is so necessary to the sport.
The quaking aspens were dropping their leaves, the tang of coming winter was in the air, mornings and evenings, yet the middle of the day was so warm that we drank deeply of the waters of the naturally carbonated springs.
Soon we are racing across the level to the Fish Hatchery, between avenues of quaking aspens and young tamaracks and pines.
There is scarcely a canyon where alders, cottonwoods and quaking aspens may not be found.
Francesco heard it sweeping out of the night, whistling through the aspens and the willows until it struck the tower and moaned about it, like a desperate and dying thing clinging to something that it loved.
Thousands of willows and aspens grew about the mere, and in the shallows were sedges and sword-leaved flags.
Portrait of a Gentleman and a Lady# Aspens at Cresheim: p.
The Douglas-fir must be considered the outstanding species in this zone although the brilliant autumn color of quaking aspens provides more spectacular identification of this area during the fall.
Aspens are already beginning to crowd in about its edges, and the creek is cutting deeper into its soft soil with every spring.
All of the aspens within reach are finally cut down and the hungry beavers turn to the resinous bark of the spruces.
Back of them a thick growth of aspens extends to the edge of the valley and mingles with the spruce trees on the slope.
The leaves of the aspens had turned yellow, and one by one had loosed their holds upon the trees, and twirled slowly toward the ground.
No breeze stirred the sprays of the pines; even the leaves of the aspens hung motionless.
They had not been waiting more than a few moments before they heard the magpies calling not far off, and presently one, almost at once followed by two others, appeared in the branches of one of the aspens close to the ducks' pen.
A yellow leaf wavering down from the aspens struck Richard's cheek, and he drew away the very hand to throw back his hair and smooth his face, and then folded his arms, unconscious of offence.
Under the tall aspens of Brentford-ait, and on they swept, the white moon in their wake.
One day I came across a party of merry little aspenswho were in a circle around a grand old pine, as though using the pine for a maypole to dance around.
By the brooks the clean and childlike aspens mingle with the willow and the alder or the handsome silver spruce.
This the conifers do, and in a very short time smother the aspens that made it possible for them to start in life.
The good nursery work of aspensis restricted pretty closely to damp places.
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