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where the tropic rains tear away the earth and make hollows, which in process of time become overgrown with trees, and the resort of monkeys and other animals.
"The Ivy green
Whose matted tods," &c.
A judicious friend objected to this expression as obscure; but it has the authority of Spencer.
"At length within an Ivy tod
There shrouded was the little God."
Shepherd's Calendar. Ecl. 3.
And I think I could quote other poets as having used it.
