So Much Alliteration!

Hazel and hawthorn are interwoven,
decked and draped in damp, shaggy moss
and bedraggled birds on bare, black branches
pipe pitifully into the piercing cold.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a verse translation by Simon Armitage

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