Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of …

Charles Dickens
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. ✨ Charles Dickens (1905). The Pickwick Papers, p.70
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. ✨ Charles Dickens (1905). The Pickwick Papers, p.70

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