bucket quotes

And 'twould be a cruel thing, When her black eyes have raised desire, Should she not her bucket bring And kindly help to quench the fire.

- Matthew Prior
'Chloe Beauty Has andWit'. (Date unknown. In Matthew Prior: LiteraryWorks, editedby H B Wright and M K Spears, 2 vols,1959.)

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

- Carl Sandburg
  Cornhuskers,'Prairie'.