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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Fir (Abies) |
| A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. Heine—Book of Songs. Lyrical Interlude. No. 34. | 1 |
| I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky. Hood—I Remember, I Remember. | 2 |
| In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne’er remember Their green felicity. Keats—Stanzas. | 3 |
| Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine, And sends a comfortable heat from far, Which might supply the sun. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. X. L. 1,076. | 4 |
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