Treasure Mountain Dome

Famous quotes containing the words treasure, mountain and/or dome:

    “Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil,
    Do seek most precious things to make your gain,
    And both the Indias of their treasure spoil,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
    And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
    —Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)

    “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
    As the swift seasons roll!
    Leave thy low-vaulted past!
    Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
    Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
    Till thou at length art free,
    Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)