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" Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms; Where light-heeled ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) Embodied thick, perform their... "
Spring; Or, The Causes, Appearances, and Effects, of the Seasonal ... - Page 190
by Robert Mudie - 1837 - 296 pages
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Sylvan sketches; or, A companion to the park and the shrubbery, by the ...

Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...grave, " Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms; Where light-heeled...and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon, (so fame reports), Embody 'd, thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree, is thine."...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 25

1835 - 466 pages
...Well do 1 know thee by thy trusty yew. Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell •Midst sknlls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...visionary shades. Beneath the wan. cold moon, (so fame reports, Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds.) No other merriment, dull tree ! is thme....
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Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of ..., Volume 4

John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 686 pages
...— " Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew ; Cheerless unsocial plant, that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (so fame reporte), Embodied thick, perform their mystic rounds: No other merriment, dull tree, U thine."...
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Rambles Round Glasgow: Descriptive, Historical, and Traditional

Hugh MacDonald - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1860 - 472 pages
...intermingled with its funereal foliage. '' Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell Midst sculls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports), Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds: No other merriment, dull tree, is...
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Churchyard Literature: A Choice Collection of American Epitaphs, with ...

John Robert Kippax - Epitaphs - 1877 - 238 pages
...COPYRIGHT, 1876, by JOHN R. KIPPAX. TO ALL WHO E'ER IN MUSING, HAVE IN FACT OR FANCY STROLLEO, " MIDST SKULLS AND COFFINS, EPITAPHS AND WORMS ; WHERE LIGHT-HEELED GHOSTS AND VISIONARY SHADES, j ; i PERFORM THEIR MYSTIC ROUNDS," IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. COKTEKTS. FAUX INTRODUCTION 9 EPITAPHS...
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The Book of English Elegies

W. F. March Phillipps - Elegiac poetry - 1879 - 384 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms, Where light-heeled...ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon, as fame reports, Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds ; No other merriment, dull tree, is thine....
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Abbotsford Series of the Scottish Poets,

George Eyre-Todd - 1896 - 256 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms, Where light-heeled...ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon, as fame reports, Embodied thick, perform their mystic rounds. No other merriment, dull tree ! is thine....
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms : Where light-heeled ghosts, and visionary shades, 25 Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds, No other...
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A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse

Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...irksome. Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant ! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms : Where light-heeled ghosts, and visionary shades, 25 Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds, No other...
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Holly, Yew & Box: With Notes on Other Evergreens

William Dallimore - Box - 1908 - 418 pages
...— " Well do I know thee by thy trusty Yew, Cheerless, unsocial plant, that loves to dwell, Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ; Where light-heeled...ghosts, and visionary shades, Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports), Embody'd thick perform their mystic rounds No other merriment, dull tree is thine."...
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