Famous quotes containing the words official, sung and/or verse:
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (18731944)
“We were uncertain whether the water floated the land, or the land held the water in its bosom. It was such a season, in short, as that in which one of our Concord poets sailed on its stream, and sung its quiet glories.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When I a verse shall make,
Know I have prayed thee,
For old religions sake,
Saint Ben, to aid me.”
—Robert Herrick (15911674)
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