PINE TKEE. 



And its mighty trunks are torn 

 By the fire thus lowly born : 

 The spark beneath his feet is dead ; 

 He starts to see the flames it fed 

 Howling through the darkened sky 

 With a myriad tongues victoriously." 



Shelley. 



Some of the Pines have been celebrated for their use 

 in ship-building. Lucan says — 



^' From fair Thessalia's Pegasaean shore. 

 The first bold pine the daring warriors bore, 

 And taught the sons of earth wide ocean to explore." 



Rowe's Lucan, b. ri. 



W. Browne writes — 



" The pine with whom men through the ocean venture." 

 Chaucer speaks of 



The sailing firre 



Spenser of 



The sailing pine 

 And a httie farther on, says — 



The firr that weepeth still." 



It is curious that in Harte's translation of Statius this 

 distinction is just reversed : 



" The advent'rous fir that sails the vast profound. 

 And pine, fresh bleeding from the odorous wound." 



The Scotch Pine, which is most in use for shipping, is 

 as frequently called the Scotch Fir, and all the trees of 

 this genus are, more or less, kchrym_ose. Other firs, 



