The Lost City of Sand

Famous quotes containing the words lost, city and/or sand:

    “I am so lated in the world, that I
    Have lost my way for ever.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.”
    —Abraham Cowley (1618–1667)

    “Unhappy is the man for evermair
    That tills the sand and sawis in the air;
    But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
    That feidis in his hairt a mad desire
    And follows on a woman thro the fire,
    Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn.”
    —Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601)