boughs

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. Victor Hugo

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above. William Cullen Bryant

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. William Butler Yeats

Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. Thomas Hood

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide. Andrew Marvell

When the tree falls every one runs to cut boughs. Dutch Proverb