Misc quips, stanzas, and quotes

Sir Walter Scott
1771 - 1832

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed;
In halls, in gay attire is seen;
In hamlets, dances on the green.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above,
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto III, st.2


True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is nt fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto V, st.13


O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood;
Land of the mountain and flood!

The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto IV, st.2


The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer.

Slogan of the United States Army Service Forces


My library
Was Dukedom large enough.

Shakespeare, The Tempest


And that's all for now. :)