Canals Sill

Famous quotes containing the words canals and/or sill:

    The Nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky;
    The walls, the woods, and long canals reply.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    At the punch-bowl’s brink,
    Let the thirsty think,
    What they say in Japan:
    First the man takes a drink,
    Then the drink takes a drink,
    Then the drink takes the man!
    —Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887)