Quotes
Quotes - Carman
Here's to the day when it is May
And care as light as a feather,
When your little shoes and my big boots
Go tramping over the heather.
There paused to shut the door
A fellow called the Wind,
With mystery before,
And reticence behind.
The glad indomitable sea,
The strong white sun.
Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach, Reddening on the bough? Shall I not take thee?
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.
When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.
