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Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf 

 That the wind severs from the broken wave. 



COWPER. 



After summer, evermore succeeds 



The barren winter, with his nipping cold. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



And on this forehead, (where your verse has said 

 The loves delighted, and the graces play'd,) 

 Insulting age will trace his cruel way, 

 And leave sad marks of his destructive sway. 



PRIOR. 



THE MULBERRY-TREE. 



Pliny observes, that the mulberry-tree was esteemed the 

 wisest of all the trees, because it never expanded its buds 

 until all fear of frost was past, and hence the origin of 

 the emblem, Wisdom. 



The green leaf 



■ Which feeds the spinning worm. 



And that old mulberry that shades the court 

 Has been my joy from very childhood up. 



H. KIRKE WHITE. 



