birken
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of birken
Example Sentences
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Those birken trees, how they perfume the summer air around us!
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Fare thee well, my native cot, Bothy of the birken tree!
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Oh, wad that my time were ower but, Wi’ this wintry sleet and snaw, That I might see our house again I’ the bonny birken shaw!—
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Sweet, oh, sweet! with Mary o'er the wilds to stray, When Glensmole is dress'd in all the pride of May; And, when weary roving through the greenwood glade, Softly to recline beneath the birken shade.
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The broom, the brier, the birken bush, Bloom bonny o'er thy flowery lea, And a' the sweets that ane can wish Frae Nature's hand, are strew'd on thee.
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