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English: A spindle tree (Euonymus europaeus) - fruit. Growing on the western edge of Hercules Wood > 1088306. The species growing in Great Britain is also a native of Western Siberia, North Africa, and the whole of Europe from Sweden and Scotland to the Caucasus. Its popular names in English as well as in French and in German, "Spindle-tree," "Fusain" and "Spindelbaum," all refer to the use of its wood for the manufacture of handspindles, a usage which still prevails where hand-spinning survives as an industry. In a short poem called "A Dedication" the Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson (6 Aug 1809 - 6 Oct 1892) expressly refers to the fruit of the Spindle-tree in the following lines:
"Take this, and pray that he Who wrote it, honouring your sweet faith in him, May trust himself; and, spite of praise and seorn, As one who feels the immeasurable world, Attain the wise indifference of the wise; And after Autumn past - if left to pass His Autumn into seeming-leafless days Draw toward the long frost and longest night, Wearing his wisdom lightly, like the fruit Which in our winter woodland looks a flower." |
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