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gone where the woodbine twineth. Woodbine is a honey- suckle (Lonicera periclymenum) that was often planted on graves in years past. An 1870 song written as a tribute to those who died in the bloody Civil War went: “Then go where the wood- bine twineth,/ When spring is bright and fair,/ And to the sol- dier’s resting place/ Some little tribute bear.” From this song by Septimus Winner the expression gone where the woodbine twi- neth came to mean someone who had died, or even someone who had gone someplace from which he would never return. |