Famous quotes containing the words news and/or letter:
“Word of gloom from the war, one day;
Johnston pressed at the front, they say.
Little Giffen was up and away;
A tearhis firstas he bade good-by,
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
Ill write, if spared! There was news of the fight;
But none of Giffen.He did not write.”
—Francis Orrery Ticknor (18221874)
“And the one bird singing alone to his nest,
And the one star over the tower.
I thought of our little quarrels and strife,
And the letter that brought me back my ring;
And it all seemd then, in the waste of life,”
—Owen Meredith (18311891)
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