Famous quotes containing the words black and/or silk:
“th’ other black and grave, wherewith each one
Is checker’d all along,
Humilitie:”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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