“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: / The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: / But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) / Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: / The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.”
Bible
“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
William Shakespeare
“I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, / Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs.”
John Keats
“Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough, / That sometime grew within this learnèd man.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
A. E. Housman
“Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live”
“I see my trees repair their boughs”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
