Britain Passed

Famous quotes containing the words britain and/or passed:

    “Hath Britain all the sun that shines? day? night?
    Are they not but in Britain?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
    And many a flower and medicinal weed—
    Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
    At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
    And passed to a sweet repose.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)