Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or syllables:
“One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks, pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ diedI want none of it.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)
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