| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Pines |
| | | The pine is the mother of legends. Lowell. | 1 |
| | Shaggy shade |
| Of desert-loving pine, whose emerald scalp |
| Nods to the storm. |
Byron. | 2 |
| | Twas on the inner bark, stripped from the pine, |
| Our father pencilled this epistle rare; |
| Two blazing pine knots did his torches shine, |
| Two braided pallets formed his desk and chair. |
Durfee. | 3 |
| | Like two cathedral towers these stately pines |
| Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones; |
| The arch beneath them is not built with stores, |
| Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines, |
| And carved this graceful arabesque of vines; |
| No organ but the wind here sighs and moans, |
| No sepulchre conceals a martyrs bones, |
| No marble bishop on his tomb reclines. |
| Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves, |
| Gives back a softened echo to thy tread! |
| Listen! the choir is singing; all the birds, |
| In leafy galleries beneath the eaves, |
| Are singing! listen, ere the sound be fled, |
| And learn there may be worship without words. |
Longfellow. | 4 | | |
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