Late Twelfth

Famous quotes containing the words late and/or twelfth:

    But this was the old tree’s late branch wrenched away,
    Grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and shaken.
    John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    The twelfth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Twelve lords a-leaping.
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 89–91)