Flower Wreath Hill

Famous quotes containing the words flower, wreath and/or hill:

    “Well, if it isn’t Aurora Ratchett, goddess of the dawn, a sight for sore eyes.... I always think of Ebenezer Pritchett, the day he led that last charge at Shiloh. There was a gallant trooper, your father. You know, there went a man of quality. There went the flower of the South.”
    —Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)

    “And before, with banner red,
    Through the blizzard snow unseen,
    All unharmed by hail of lead,
    With a step like snow so light,
    Showered in myriad pearls of snow.
    Crowned in wreath of roses white,
    Christ leads onward as they go.”
    —Alexander Blok (1880–1921)

    “O happy, happy each
    man whom predestined fate
    leads to the holy rite
    of hill and mountain worship.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)