...the bare and wintry woods we see What then sa chearful as the Holly Tree ? Less bright than they, ' So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as chearful I might be As the green winter...

...bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see What then so chearful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as chearful I might be As the green winter...

...bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see What then so chearful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as chearful I might be As the green winter...

...written two) are not answerable to it ; they are, except a few poetical passages, drawling sentiment So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...

...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree! So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay, More grave than they ; That, in my age, as cheerful I might be As the green...

...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree! So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay, More grave than they ; That, in my age, as cheerful I might be^ As the green...

...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly- Tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...

...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so chearful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as chearful I might be • As the green...

...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly-tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly-tree." Wordsworth also praises the Holly : " Where leafless oaks towered high above, I sate within...

...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...