Swordsmen Returned

Famous quotes containing the words swordsmen and/or returned:

“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell’s house and Cromwell’s murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)