Famous quotes containing the words colonel and/or robinson:
“The Colonel went out sailing,
He spoke with Turk and Jew
With Christian and with Infidel
For all tongues he knew.
O whats a wifeless man? said he
And he came sailing home.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“He comes unfailing for the loan
We give and then forget;
He comes, and probably for years
Will he be coming yet,
Familiar as an old mistake,
And futile as regret.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935)
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