Spectre Called

Famous quotes containing the words spectre and/or called:

    “The acorn’s not yet
    Fallen from the tree
    That’s to grow the wood,
    That’s to make the cradle,
    That’s to rock the bairn,
    That’s to grow a man,
    That’s to lay me.”
    —Unknown. The Cauld Lad of Hilton or, The Wandering Spectre (l. 2–8)

    “‘Look in my face. My name is Used-to-was,
    I am also called Played-out and Done-to-death,
    And It-will-wash-no-more.”
    —Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900)