By and by the trunk and root form the knees of a stately ship, bearing the country's flag around the world.

Other parts form keel and ribs of merchantmen, and having defied the mountain storms, they now equally resist the thunder of the waves and the murky threat of scowling hurricanes.

Other parts are laid into floors, or wrought into wainscoting, or carved for frames of noble pictures, or fashioned into chairs that embosom the weakness of old age.

Thus the tree, in dying, came not to its end, but to its beginning of life.

It voyaged the world.