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THE SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF IVY. 



The oak and pine, which high from earth arise, 

 And wave their lofty heads amidst the skies, 

 Their parent earth in like proportion wound, 

 And through crude metals penetrate the ground; 

 Their strong and ample roots descend so deep, 

 That fixed and firm they may their station keep, 

 And the fierce shocks of furious winds defy, 

 With all the outrage of inclement sky. 

 But the base brier, and noble vine, 

 Their arms around their stronger neighbour twine. 

 The creeping ivy, to prevent its fall, 

 Clings with its fibrous grapples to the wall." 



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Sylvestral ivy, Delamere Forest, Cheshire. 



