Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:
“Gods fire upon the wane,
A diagram hung there instead,
More women born than men.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Mind not the old man beseeching the young man;
Let not the childs voice be heard, nor the mothers entreaties;
Make even the trestles to shake the dead, where they lie awaiting
the hearses,
So strong you thump, O terrible drumsso loud you bugles blow.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
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