PINE

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1. Desert-loving pine, whose emerald scalp
   Nods to the storm.—BYRON, Prophecy of Dante
   

2. As sunbeams stream through liberal space
   And nothing jostle or displace,
   So waved the pine-tree through my thought
   And fanned the dreams it never brought.—EMERSON, Wood Notes
   

3. The pine wishes herself a shrub when the axe is at her root.—Proverb
   

4. Like two cathedral towers these stately pines
   Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones.—LONGFELLOW, My Cathedral
   

5. Yes, the pine is the mother of legends.—LOWELL, The Growth of the Legend
   

6. The arched walks of twilight groves,
   And shadows brown that Sylvan loves,
   Of pine.—MILTON, Il Pensaroso
   

7. Ay me! the bark peel'd from the lofty pine,
   His leaves will wither and his sap decay.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
   

8. And wind, that grand old harper, smote
   His thunder-harp of pines.—ALEXANDER SMITH, A Life Drama

9. Here also grew the rougher rinded pine
   The great Argoan ship's brave ornament.—EDMUND SPENSER, Virgil's Gnat
   

10. The sailing pine.—EDMUND SPENSER, The Faerie Queene
    

11. Ancient Pines,
    Ye bear no record of the years of man.
    Spring is your sole historian.—BAYARD TAYLOR, The Pine Forest of Monterey