Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sparrow:
“O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sins black memory.
That thou remember them, some claim as debt;
I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”
—John Donne (15721631)
“A sparrow enters the tree,
Whereon immediately
A snow lump thrice his own slight size
Descends on him and showers his head and eyes,
And overturns him,”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
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