WINTER
“GIVE ME YOUR BRIDE, your bonnie bride
That left her nest with you to flee!
Oh she hath flown to be my own
For I am alone on the gallows-tree!”
Fitz-James O’Brien 1828 - 1862
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”THE TREE OF DEEPEST root is found
Least willing still to quit the ground.”
Hester Lynch 1739 - 1821
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”NOW ALSO THE AXE IS laid unto the root of the trees:
Therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit
Is hewn down and cast into the fire.”
Matthew 3:10
