Slough quotes

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough It isn't fit for humans now There isn't grass to graze a cow Swarm over, Death!

- SirJohn Betjeman
  Continual Dew,'Slough'.

Thismiry slough, issuch a place as cannot be mended: It is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sindoth continually run, and therefore isit called the Slough of Despond.

-John Bunyan
  The Pilgrim's Progress, pt.1.