| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Hawthorn |
| | | The hawthorn trees blow in the dew of the morning. Burns. | 1 |
| | And every shepherd tells his tale |
| Under the hawthorn in the dale. |
Milton. | 2 |
| | Yet, all beneath the unrivalld rose, |
| The lowly daisy sweetly blows; |
| Tho large the forests monarch throws |
| His army shade, |
| Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows, |
| Adown the glade. |
Burns. | 3 |
| | Then sing by turns, by turns the Muses sing; |
| Now hawthorns blossom. |
Pope. | 4 | | |
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