Larks Tongues

Famous quotes containing the words larks and/or tongues:

“There was an old man with a beard,
who said, “It is just as I feared!—
Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!””
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)

“The air split into nine levels,
Some gift of tongues of the whistler”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)