5. Explain these lines in your own words:
While I've a hand to save,
Thy axe shall harm it not.
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Woodman, spare that tree!
A true story.
George_Pope_MorrisGeorge Pope Morris was a 19th century American poet and songwriter who earned his living editing newspapers and writing literary reviews. His poetry is sentimental, personal, and nostalgic. Morris is best known for just one poem, originally titled “The Oak”, which became a Victorian parlour song:
“Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I’ll protect it now.
’Twas my forefather’s hand
That placed it near his cot;
There, woodman, let it stand,
Thy axe shall harm it not.”
Morris was born on 10 October 1802 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Little is known about his early life until the late 1820s when, with fellow writer and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis, he founded the New York Evening Mirror newspaper. It was this paper that obtained an advance copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven”, which it published in 1845.
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