1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dedication to the Reverend George Coleridge” in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle, 2nd edition, pp. x-xi,
[…] the Tree […] whose old boughs,
That hang above us in an arborous roof,
Stirr’d by the faint gale of departing May
Send their loose blossoms slanting o’er our heads!