Tropic Quotes 

Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile."You mean," he said, "a crocodile."
Ogden Nash
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Midwinter Spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.


— 1942  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

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Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Edmund Waller

— Upon the Death of the Lord Protector; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Beside The grim old sea-king sits his bride, A sun-land blossom, rudely torn From tropic forests to be worn Above as stern a breast as e'er Stood king at sea or anywhere.

joaquin miller

— III, p. 22. (The Ship in the Desert (1875))

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