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Quotation by Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh (32)Additional Sources
"A Collection of Political Observations" The Cabinet Council"A Collection of Political Observations" The Cabinet Council (1751)A Farewell to False LoveAs You Came from the Holy Land (attributed to Raleigh)Even Such is Time The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh, ed. Agnes M. Latham (1951)
And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
The wood is that which makes the gallow tree;
The weed is that which strings the hangman's bag;
The wood is that which makes the gallow tree;
The weed is that which strings the hangman's bag;
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618), British poet. Three Things There Be That Prosper All Apace (l. 5–7). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
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