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Nor uninformed with phantasy, and looks 

 That threaten the profane ; a pillared shade, 

 Upon whose grassless floor, of red-brown hue, 

 By sheddiugs from the pining umbrage tinged 

 Perennially ; beneath whose sable roof 

 Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked 

 With unrejoicing berries, ghostly shapes 

 May meet at noontide, Fear, and trembling Hope, 

 Silence, and Foresight, Death the skeleton, 

 f And Time the shadow, there to celebrate, 

 As in a natural temple, scattered o'er 

 "With altars undisturbed, of mossy stone, 

 United worship ; or in mute repose 

 To lie, and listen to the mountain-flood 

 Murmuring from Glenamara's inmost cave. 



Old trees of equal antiquity and interest are found in 

 clefts of the Borrowdale rocks, and on Cowgie Scar, near 

 Kendal, in woods above Derweiit bridge, and on the shores 

 of the Wear, below Hilton Castle. Tourists also speak of such 

 on the mountains called Yew-barrow, in accessible places of 

 Furness Fells, and as being scattered over the Glee Hills 

 and the cliffs of Cheddar. Indigenous to the limestone 

 eminences of Gloucestershire, a fine specimen occurs in a 



