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


The Season; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). - 20th century

Thomas Hood Quotes

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

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

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

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