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The Yew is among all natrons an emblem of sorrow. 
Its bare trunk, and dark foliage, with which its fruit, 
looking like drdps.of blood, stands in harsh contrast, 
excite in us a sort of aversion. 'Persons who sleep 
under a Yew tree areuiable to be. seized with dizziness, 
heaviness, and violent headache. Its juice is poisonous, 
and the tree exhausts the soil which supports it, and 
destroys all other plants which spring up beneath it. 
The Yew was planted in old English burying-grounds, 
and its wood was commonly employed for making bows 
and arrows before the introduction of fire-arms. The 
Greeks, impressed with the melancholy aspect of this 
tree, invented the fable of the unhappy Smilax; who, 
seeing that her love^w^rej'eet^l by young Crocus, was 
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—*^£ 3 Montgomery. 
Griefs of mine own he heavy in my breas„, ^ 
Which thou wilt pjropagate, to have s .them pre . 
With more of thine: this love^ that thou hast shown, 
Doth add mor|-'grief to too much of mine own. 
^ Shakspeare. 
