Famous quotes containing the words hem and/or fir:
“A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
To boille the chiknes with the marybones.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“I remember, I remember
The fir trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky;
It was a childish ignorance,
But now ‘tis little joy
To know I’m further off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.”
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845)