Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Chestnut Tree (Castanea Vesca)
When I see the chestnut letting
All her lovely blossoms falter down, I think,
“Alas the day!”
Jean Ingelow—The Warbling of Blackbirds.
The chestnuts, lavish of their long-hid gold,
To the faint Summer, beggared now and old,
Pour back the sunshine hoarded ’neath her favoring eye.
Lowell—Indian-Summer Reverie. St. 10.