Sir Thomas Browne

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    “Over Sir John’s hill,
    The hawk on fire hangs still;
    In a hoisted cloud, at drop of dusk, he pulls to his claws
    And gallows, up the rays of his eyes the small birds of the bay....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The morning is flying on the wings of his age
    And a hundred storks perch on the sun’s right hand.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.”
    —Thomas Browne (1605–1682)