Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Yew-tree
Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell
’Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms.
Blair.—The Grave, Line 22.
And in the dusk of thee, the clock
Beats out the little lives of men.
Tennyson.—In Memoriam II. Verse 2.