Famous quotes containing the words pretty, soldier and/or sailor:
“Here a pretty Baby lies
Sung asleep with Lullabies:
Pray be silent, and not stirre
Th easie earth that covers her.”
—Robert Herrick (15911674)
“For a shirt verminously busy
Yon soldier tore from his throat, with oaths
Godhead might shrink at, but not the lice.”
—Isaac Rosenberg (18901918)
“The soger frae the wars returns,
The sailor frae the main,
But I hae parted frae my Love,
Never to meet again, my dear,
Never to meet again.”
—Robert Burns (17591796)