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)

    “I smiled at the speech you spoke,
    At your judgement that I heard:
    But I have not often smiled
    Since then, nor questioned since,
    Nor cared for corn-flowers wild,
    Nor sung with the singing bird.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “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)