A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
On a Girdle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair;
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
On a Girdle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).