Though only broken hearts be found To watch his cradle by, No blight is on his slumbers sound, No touch of harmful eye.
I'm leavin' this place because they's a blight on it, and that blight is Dan Barry.
Believe, amidst thy sorrows, That the blight that swathes the earth Is only a shade that borrows Life from thy spirit's dearth.
The disappearance for three centuries of the national consciousness in Servia and Bulgaria was not the sole work of the Moslem invader; a more fatal blight to the national languages and culture were the Greek bishops and clergy who conducted their churches and schools.
For example, chestnut blight is a fungous disease that is killing many of our most valuable chestnut trees.