A chieftain to the Highlands boundCries, "Boatman, do not tarry!And I'll give thee a silver poundTo row us o'er the ferry!"
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Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
wallace stevensConticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant Inde toro paterAeneas sic orsus ab alto. They fell silent, every one, and each face was turned intently towards him. From high on the dais Aeneas, Troy's Chieftain, began to speak.
At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.
william least heat-moonA Chieftain to the Highlands bound Cries 'Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row us o'er the ferry.'
thomas campbellThe triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious Chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.
william h. prescottWe need no Chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
jack vance