DEATH OF A TREE
They have cut down Milton’s Elm. For 500 years it had stood in Ohalf-ont St. Giles, in Buckinghamshire, where the Ohiltern Hills send down their runlets to the Thames. It was still a noble and a spreading tree to view, But ii had become dangerous—or the authorities, as authorities will, said it had —and, after a long dispute between the preservers and the destroyers, the destroyers had their way. *But the stump is to he preserved .is a rmorial to the great poet of Puritan Jjpgland. “Let it 16ng remain,” says tne London Times, “a memorial to the enduring strength alike of a great mind and of an ancient tree.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 10
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114DEATH OF A TREE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 10
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