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And again, how finely lie borrows the same image, when 
speaking of the fallen angels: — 
—-“ faithful how they stood, 
Their glory wither’d ; as when heaven’s fire 
Hath scathed the forest oaks, or mountain pines, 
With singed top their stately growth, though bare 
Stands on the blasted heath.” 
Roth pines and firs, between which there is a very close 
alliance, are valuable for a vast variety of purposes. 
“ Sea and land,” says Evelyn, “ may contend for their 
many and universal use.” The true pine, he adds, 
was very highly commended for naval architecture: 
hence the title which Virgil gives it, — “ the useful pine 
for ships; ” and also the many references by our earlier 
poets to its applicability to marine purposes. 
Spenser denominates it 
“ The sayling pine 
and Browne speaks of 
“ The pine with whom men through the ocean venture.” 
They both also share much classical fame; being 
dedicated, one or both, perhaps indiscriminately, by the 
ancients to several of their rural deities: they also 
composed the crown of the victors in the Isthmian 
games. 
