“All a green willow, willow,
All a green willow is my garland.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
The Green Willow; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,
And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer's queen.”
— Walter Scott, book Rokeby
Canto III, stanza 16.
Rokeby (1813)
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