West Sand Lake

Famous quotes containing the words west, sand and/or lake:

    “It was in and about the Martinmas time,
    When the green leaves were afalling,
    That Sir John Graeme, in the West Country,
    Fell in love with Barbara Allan.”
    —Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 1–4)

    “Unhappy is the man for evermair
    That tills the sand and sawis in the air;
    But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
    That feidis in his hairt a mad desire
    And follows on a woman thro the fire,
    Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn.”
    —Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601)

    “Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)