“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
Walt Whitman book Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 313–314 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
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