Quote#Time
Light heart, light foot, light food, and slumber light
Quote byEdward Hovell Thurlow · 1781–1829
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Select Poems (1821), Sonnet ("When In The Woods I Wander All Alone"), l. 5.
English (original)
Light heart, light foot, light food, and slumber light, These lights shall light us to old Age's gate, While monarchs, whom rebellious dreams affright, Heavy with fear, death's fearful summons wait.
— Edward Hovell Thurlow
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