The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
“Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrils
From Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:
"Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;
Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake."”
"The Streets of Laredo", line 21
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poet 1907–1963Related quotes
“Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book III, p. 77
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 31
“A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
"Water", p. 104
Source: Desert Solitaire (1968)
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)