The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow
About the mother tree: a pillar'd shade
High over arched and echoing walks between.
There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat,
Shelters in cool and tends his pasturing flocks
At loop-holes cut through thickest shade. These leaves
They gathered; broad as Amazonian targe:
And with what skill they had, together sewed
To gird their waist," &c.
Par. Lost, ix. 1100.