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Hid in the shrubby rain, course now, You mark him by the crashing bough,
The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954
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How strong the sap is climbing out to every naked bough,
England over Seas Lloyd Roberts
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How in far-off lands, where the cypress bends o'er the laurel bough,
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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And amid her hair's rich braidings rests the pearly orange bough,
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Thet strings a feller with a claim up tu the nighest bough,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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But trees that were as sapling twigs, with broad and shadowing bough,
The Liberty Minstrel George W. Clark
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When Lucy sees, and only sees, three crows upon a bough,
Songs of Childhood Walter De la Mare 1914
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Though shining suns and silver moons burn on the bough,
A Prayer A. E. 1913
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And silver blossoms kiss his cheek at bending of the bough,
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Dew bright with the tears of its origin, dew with its weight on the bough,
Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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