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_Sycamores_. 'That sycamore which annually holds Within its shade as in a stately tent.' ['Excursion,' Book vii.ll.
622-3.] 'This sycamore oft musical with Bees; _Such tents_ the Patriarch loved.' S.T.
COLERIDGE. 522.
_The Transitory_. 'Perish the roses and the flowers of Kings.' ['Excursion,' Book vii.l.
990.] The 'Transit gloria mundi' is finely expressed in the Introduction to the Foundation-charters of some of the ancient Abbeys.
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