Famous quotes containing the word sound:
“Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet tis early morn:
Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold graveunder the deep, deep sea,
Or in wide desert where no life is found,”
—Thomas Hood (17991845)
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