Famous Quotes | Green springs the tree, hemp...
Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
Attribution: Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618), British poet. Three Things There Be That Prosper All Apace (l. 10–12). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
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