Black Hawk County

Famous quotes containing the words black, hawk and/or county:

    “Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face!
    Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!”
    —Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)

    “Merry Margaret,
    As midsummer flower,
    Gentle as falcon
    Or hawk of the tower:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    “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)