Trees - - Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene

The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall,

The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,

The builder oak, sole king of forests all,

The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral,

The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors

And poets sage, the fir that weepiest still,

The yew obedient to the bender's will,

The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill,

The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound,

The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill,

The fruitful olive, and the platane round,

The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

- Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene