noose quotes

  • Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.

    - Edward Fitzgerald
      The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza1.

  • And naked to the hangman's noose The morning clocks will ring A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.

    - A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
      A Shropshire Lad, no.9.

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