Famous quotes containing the words burnt and/or alive:
“O fy gar ride, and fy gar rin,
And haste ye find these traitors again;
For shes be burnt and hes be slain,
The wearifu gaberlunzie man.”
—Unknown. The Gaberlunzie Man (l. 4952)
“O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
How can you be alive you growths of spring?
How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
Are they not continually putting distemperd corpses within you?
Is not every continent workd over and over with sour dead?”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)