Maine Light Artillery

Famous quotes containing the words maine, light and/or artillery:

“It was a Maine lobster town—
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“Ye are the light of the world.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 5:14.

From the Sermon on the Mount.

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)