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On both sides are little square plots fenced against sheep and goats by a rude abattis of stripped and dead boughs,
The Land of Midian 2003
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-- Where glid the sunbeams through the latticed boughs,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 Various
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From the altar-steps, and lift your suppliant boughs,
The Seven Plays in English Verse 495? BC-406 BC Sophocles
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A son aspect, du sein des Lo, as he comes, from out the flottantes ramures, waving boughs,
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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While we laugh and carouse 'neath its glittering boughs,
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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While we laugh and carouse 'neath its glittering boughs,
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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So the sunset saw them mustering beneath their brooding boughs,
The New Morning Poems Alfred Noyes 1919
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Save when the myriad leaves on full-fledged boughs,
Georgian Poetry 1920-22 Various 1912
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Crashing sweeps down its neighbour trunks and boughs,
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Your bed is the sere leaf, your roof the green boughs,
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