Pinebranch

The ruined hut was roofless, but across an angle of the walls some pinebranches had been flung, as a sort of shelter for the sheep or cattle that might repair thither in cruel weather—[…] Over them where they lay bended down the pinebranch roof, as if it would give way beneath the increasing weight; […]

And now when I think of you I see you on your piano-stool finger the ineffectual bright keys and even in the pinkish parlor glow your eyes sea-grey are very wide as if they carried the reflection of mocking black pinebranches and unclimbed red-purple mountains mist-tattered under a violet-gleaming evening.

BUT come to wild Södermanland / Where forests hem you at each hand. / Come in the twilight to the coast: / The owl is stationed at his post / Upon the pinebranch every night— / To see him gives you quite a fright, / Whose eyes are fastened on the seas / And mindful of its mysteries.

Across road forestwall is darker, deeper, pine trunks stand luminous in the dark shade bespotted & specked with background browngreen masses—horizontal puff-green pinebranches, all over the frizzly corn top sea—[…]

Muscicapa albicollis, settled in the box No. 5. — The nest consists of moss, small pinebranches, particles of dry roots; the cup is made of pine-needles and hair.

To chase away the gloom, the family threw pinebranches on their fire, till the dry leaves crackled, and the flame arose, discovering once again a scene of peace and humble happiness.

At fifty to sixty it chases the cat in, breaks the pinebranch (Bishop), rips the eucalyptus leaf loose, wakes the baby, shakes the roof & bangs the door.

Three enormous torches, built of tree trunks and pinebranches, stand waiting in the muddy temple grounds where goldfish-fishing contests are in progress, batteries of slot machines are overworked.