“To eat the lotus of the Nile
And drink the poppies of Cathay.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
The Tent on the Beach, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”
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