John Greenleaf Whittier Quote

To eat the lotus of the Nile
And drink the poppies of Cathay.


The Tent on the Beach, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.

To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.

To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.

To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay.