Scythes

Famous quotes containing the word scythes:

“yet another summer loath to go
Although the scythes hang in the apple trees.”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)