MULBERRY-TREE. 
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Her silver globes, light as the foamy surf 
That the wind severs from the broken wave. 
COWPER. 
After summer, evermore succeeds 
The barren winter, with his nipping cold. 
SHAKSFEARE. 
And on this forehead, (where your verse has said 
The loves delighted, and the graces play’d,) 
Insulting age will trace his cruel way, 
And leave sad marks of his destructive sway. 
PRIOR. 
THE MULBERRY-TREE. 
Pliny observes, that the mulberry-tree was esteemed the 
wisest of all the trees, because it never expanded its buds 
until all fear of frost was past, and hence the origin of 
the emblem, Wisdom. 
--The green leaf 
Which feeds the spinning worm. 
And that old mulberry that shades the court 
Has been my joy from very childhood up. 
H. KIRKE WHITE 
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