Mast Trees

Famous quotes containing the words mast and/or trees:

    “I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Bright yellow, red, and orange,
    The leaves come down in hosts;
    The trees are Indian princes,
    But soon they’ll turn to ghosts;”
    —William Allingham (1824–1889)