Famous quotes containing the words carol, stream and/or fire:
“Then bowed down the highest tree
unto his mother’s hand;
Then she cried, “See, Joseph,
I have cherries at command.””
—Unknown. The Cherry-Tree Carol (l. 26–28)
“When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)