Smoky Hill Trail

Famous quotes containing the words smoky, hill and/or trail:

    “We’ve looked and looked, but after all where are we?
    Do we know any better where we are,
    And how it stands between the night tonight
    And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
    How different from the way it ever stood?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
    Making a new twilight”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)