“White as the blossoms which the almond tree,
Above its bald and leafless branches bears.”
Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) American writer
The Royal Preacher, Stanza 5, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 19.
“White is the wold, and ghostly
The dank and leafless trees;
And 'M's and 'N's are mostly
Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's:
'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted,
The sheep stands, mute and stolid:
And ducks find out, disgusted,
That all the ponds are solid.”
Dirge, from Verses and Translations (1862).
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