Official Sung Verse

Famous quotes containing the words official, sung and/or verse:

    “In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “Bert, the big-foot, sung by Villon,
    Cassandra, Ronsard found in Lyon.
    Queens of Sheba, Meath, and Connaught,
    Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet;”
    —J.M. (John Millington)

    “Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain
    The boundless Godhead; she did well disdain
    That her eternal Verse employ’d should be
    On a less subject than Eternitie;”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)