Van Wert County

Famous quotes containing the words van, wert and/or county:

    “Don’t you hear his cannons roar?
    We’ll be Orangemen no more
    Says the Shan Van Vocht.”
    —Unknown. The Shan Van Vocht (l. 10–12)

    “Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
    Who loved thee so fondly as he?
    He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
    And joined in thy innocent glee.”
    —Margaret Courtney (1822–1862)

    “Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
    Golden Glamorgan straightens, to the falling birds.
    Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)