“Roll on, thou ball, roll on
Through pathless realms of space,
Roll on!”

— W. S. Gilbert

To the Terrestrial Globe.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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“Roll on, thou ball, roll on
Through pathless realms of space,
Roll on!”