<h2 id="c26">DEATH OF THE FOREST MONARCH.</h2>
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<p class="t0">Hark! heard you that wailing cry, sad and low?</p>
<p class="t">A nation mourning for their chief?</p>
<p class="t0">Stricken and dead he lies, and blow by blow</p>
<p class="t">Is being stripp’d of limb and leaf;</p>
<p class="t">Now from his corse is ta’en the wreath,</p>
<p class="t0">His just reward for battling many a year</p>
<p class="t">’Gainst elements; mourn him! your grief,</p>
<p class="t0">Ye trees, becomes the time; the world should hear</p>
<p class="t0">Your requiem, and for him drop a tear.</p>
<p class="t">Each year the wild bird built its nest</p>
<p class="t0">High in his crown, and would its young uprear:</p>
<p class="t">Centuries supreme the Forest</p>
<p class="t">Monarch ruled; but to Earth’s broad breast</p>
<p class="t0">That nourished him, the ax brought his return.</p>
<p class="t">The Forest Monarch is at rest;</p>
<p class="t0">All nature, save the human, seems to mourn.</p>
<p class="lr">—George W. H. Phillips, Jr.</p>
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<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2>
<ul><li>Created an eBook cover from elements within the issue.</li>
<li>Reconstructed the Table of Contents (originally on each issue’s cover).</li>
<li>Retained copyright notice on the original book (this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.)</li>
<li>Silently corrected a few palpable typos.</li></ul>
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