Birds and flowers, or, Lays and lyrics of rural life (1873)
Howitt, Mary Botham, 1799-1888, Giacomelli, Hector, 1822-1904 · London ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons · leaf 128
In the very heart of Winter-burn wood,-_ \ Last summer an Ivy-bush there stood ;As strong as an oak, as thick as a yew,^^*^ i This Ivy-bush in the forest grew:Let us go down this day, and seeIf in Winter-burn still ffiows this tree. 122 THE IVY-BUSH. Now we are here :—the words I spokeWere not, ye…