Citation - Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia: 1753.01.23

PG-P.753.014
23 Jan 1753:13 (1257)
. . . [in article about an old oak tree]
as Doctor Trapp better expresses it,
   --- It is hewn
  With strokes of axes and repeated steel
  To overturn it:  Oft it nods, and shakes
  Its leafy top, still tottering; till at length
  Subdu'd by wounds it groans its last, and torn
  From the high ridge with cumb'rous ruin falls.