| 1 | This cypress is tall and thin. | |
| 2 | Nor shady cypress tree. | |
| 3 | Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit. | |
| 4 | The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. | |
| 5 | I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines. |