Roman Chant

Famous quotes containing the words roman and/or chant:

    “The Roman Road runs straight and bare
    As the pale parting-line in hair
    Across the heath.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “Pan’s Syrinx was a girl indeed,
    Though now she’s turned into a reed;
    From that dear reed Pan’s pipe does come,
    A pipe that strikes Apollo dumb;
    Nor flute, nor lute, nor gittern can
    So chant it, as the pipe of Pan;”
    —John Lyly (1553–1606)