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Charles Henry Webb
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“Friends I have had both old and young, And ale we drank and songs we sung: Enough you know when this is said, That, one and all, they died in bed. In bed they died and I’ll not go Where all my friends have perished so.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dum vivimus vigilamus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I send thee a shell from the ocean-beach; But listen thou well, for my shell hath speech. Hold to thine ear And plain thou'lt hear Tales of ships.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Gather a shell from the strewn beach / And listen at its lips: they sigh / The same desire and mystery, / The echo of the wh…
“Of Christian souls more have been wrecked on shore Than ever were lost at sea.”
Charles Henry Webb (1834–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).