Thorn-tree

It was a walk up a long, lonely road to a solitary thorn-tree, where I was studying a shrike's nest.

Thornthwaite [Cumb.] per pale, ar. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions' heads, erased, all counterchanged ; on a chief or, a thorn-tree ppr. —Crest, a lion's head, erased, gu. in the mouth a thorn-sprig vert, fructed ppr.

But the olives they were not blind to Him, / The little gray leaves were kind to Him: / The thorn-tree had a mind to Him / When into the woods He came. […]

Every country boy and girl knows the thorn-tree, with its mass of white bloom in May and mass of red fruit in the fall.