Famous quotes containing the words pole, vault and/or stars:
“Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
That slid into my soul.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“The constellated sounds
ran sprinkling on earth’s floor
As the dark vault above
with stars was spangled o’er.”
—Robert Bridges (1844–1930)
“Ere he was born, the stars of fate
Plotted to make him rich and great:
When from the womb the babe was loosed,
The gate of gifts behind him closed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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