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Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know.

He protested: “Ah, Mordred, cornel Nay, we are not quarrelling with our King. There is no thought of that about it.”

And Kirke tossed them acorns, mast, and cornel berries—fodder for hogs who rut and slumber on the earth.

Thus sorrowing they were driven Into their cells, where Circe flung to them Acorns of oak and ilex, and the fruit Of cornel, such as nourish wallowing swine.”

The lustrous indigo of the silky cornel hangs there in profusion.