PINE TREE. 



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during the night in the search of her daughter Proser- 

 pine. 



Ovid speaks of the Pine by the name of Teda. Bry- 

 done obsei-^es, that Teda is still the name of a tree 

 growing on ]Mount Etna, wliich produces a great quan- 

 tity of resin, and was surely the most proper tree that 

 Ceres could have chosen for her pui'pose *. From the 

 use of the Pine for torchwood, Teda has also been used 

 to signify a torch, and has extended to our own lan- 

 guage : 



" At which a bushy teade a grcom did light, 

 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide^, 

 TVTiere it should not be quenched day nor night 

 For fear of e^-il Fates, but burnen ever bright." 



Spen'Ser. 



Homer thus describes the part of the Sicilian coast 

 where the Cyclops dwelt : 



" "Vyhen to the nearest verge of land we drew-, 

 Fast by the sea a lonely cave we view^ 

 High, and with darkening laurels covered o'er ; 

 Where sheep and goats lay slumbering round the shore, 

 Near this a fence of marble from the rock. 

 Brown with o'erarching pine, and spreading oak. 

 A giant shepherd here his flock maintains 

 Far from the rest, and solitary reigns, 

 In shelter thick of horrid shade reclined ; 

 And gloomy mischiefs labour in his mind." 



Pope's Homer's Odyssey, Book ix. 



Sir Philip Sidney gives an inviting description of a 

 wood of Pines : 



" They hghted downe in a faire thicke wood, which 

 did entice them ^xith. the pleasantnesse of it to take their 



* Brydone's Tour through Sicily and Malta, Letter XL p. 164. 



