Famous quotes containing the words unknown, sir and/or spens:
“Out of the earth to rest or range
Perpetual in perpetual change,
The unknown passing through the strange.”
—John Masefield (1878–1967)
“When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
It’s fiftie fadom deip,
And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
Wi the Scots lords at his feit.”
—Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)