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" Sad wailing moans, like human groans, the concert harsh prolong. But whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud hath fled, By hand of Fate, predestinate, a limb that tree will shed : A verdant bough — untouched, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath... "
Rookwood [by W.H. Ainsworth]. Illustr. libr. ed - Page xxi
by William Harrison Ainsworth - 1878
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 27

1836 - 456 pages
...llookwood in the tomb. That lime will launch a fatal branch, stem harbinger of doom. Some think tbe tree instinct must be with preternatural power. Like...bell Death's note to knell at Fate's appointed hour ! Some deem its trunk man's gure hath drunk, for traces there are seen Red as the status from human...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 13

1836 - 808 pages
...Rookwood in the tomb. That lime will launch a fatal branch, stern harbinger of doom. Some think the tree instinct must be with preternatural' power, Like...bell Death's note to knell at Fate's appointed hour ! Some deem its trunk man's gore hath drunk, fbv traces there are seen Red as the stains from human...
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Rookwood [by W.H. Ainsworth]. Revised. By W.H. Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1837 - 466 pages
...as he rode away, Alan murmured to himself the following verse from one of his own ballads : — But whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...predestinate, a limb that tree will shed ; A verdant bough, untouch'd I trow, by axe or tempest's breath,' To Rookwood's head, an omen dread, of fast approaching...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 97

Questions and answers - 1898 - 664 pages
...which, according to popular tradition, drops a branch just before a member of the family dies : — And whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...predestinate, a limb that tree will shed: A verdant bough, untouch'd, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath, To Rookwood's head an omen dread of fast approaching...
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Rookwood: A Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1849 - 422 pages
...speaks its reverend boughs among, Sad wailing moans, like human groans, the concert harsh prolong. But whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud hath fled, By hand of Fate, predestinate, u limb that tree will shed : A. verdant bough— untouched, I. trow, by axe or tempest's breath —...
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London Society, Volume 2

James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1862 - 778 pages
...forgetting the fatal tree— a lime of gigantic size — the Doom Tree of the lîookwood race : — And whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...shed; A verdant bough, untouched, I trow, by axe or tempest'e breath. To Eookwood's head, ш omen dread, of fast approaching death.' At the Burgess Hill...
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Black's Guide to the County of Sussex and Its Watering-places

Sussex (England) - 1885 - 344 pages
...carefully delineated." In the avenue that winds towards the house the Doom-Tree still stands :— " And whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...predestinate, a limb that tree will shed ; A verdant bongh, untouched, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath, To Bookwood's head, an omen dread of fast approaching...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 97

Electronic journals - 1898 - 688 pages
...which, according to popular tradition, drops a branch just before a member of the family dies : — And whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...hand of Fate, predestinate, a limb that tree will ehed: A verdant bough, untouch'd, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath, To Rookwpod's head an omen dread...
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Rookwood, Volume 1

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1903 - 326 pages
...speaks its reverend boughs among, Sad wailing moans, like human groans, the concert harsh prolong. But whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...untouched, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath — To Eookwood's head an omen dread of fast-approaching death. Some think that tree instinct must be with...
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Rookwood, Volume 2

William Harrison Ainsworth - 1903 - 294 pages
...as he rode away, Alan murmured to himself the following verse from one of his own ballads : — But whether gale or calm prevail, or threatening cloud...predestinate, a limb that tree will shed — A verdant hough, untouched, I trow, by axe or tempest's breath — To Rookwood's head an omen dread of fast-approaching...
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