GRASS

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1. A common thing is a grass blade small,
   Crushed by the feet that pass,
   But all the dwarfs and giants tall,
   Working till doomsday shadows fall
   Can't make a blade of grass.—J. S. CUTLER, Wonderful
   

2. Next in profusion to the divine profusion of water, light and air, those three physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass.—J. J. INGALLS, Blue Grass
   

3. Grass is the forgiveness of nature—her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of the cannon, grow green again with grass, and carnage is forgotten. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.—J. J. INGALLS, Blue Grass
   

4. Grass that is made each year equals the mountains in her past and future ;
   Fashionable and momentary things we need not see nor speak of.—ROBINSON JEFFERS, Point Joe
   

5. Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo,
   Shovel them under and let me work—
   I am the grass; I cover all.—CARL SANDBURG, Grass
   

6. If grass look green in Janiveer, 'twill look the worser all the year.—Proverb
   

7. Grass grows not upon the highway.—Proverb
   

8. The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
   

9. Grass nibbling inward
   Like green fire.—MARK VAN DOREN, Former Barn Lot

10. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.—WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself