Camelot quotes

There'll never be another Camelot again.

-Onassis,Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne¤  e Bouvier
On Frederick Lowe's lyrics from  Alan  Jay Lerner's Camelot, a title that became synonymous with the Kennedy administrationö'Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot.' Quoted in Theodore H  White In Search of History (1978).

On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And through the field the road runs by To many-towered Camelot.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.1, l.1^5.

Only reapers, reaping early In among the bearded barley, Hear a song that echoes cheerly From the river winding clearly, Down to towered Camelot.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.1, l.28^32.

All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle leather, The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.3, l.91^5.

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; 'The curse is come upon me', cried The Lady of Shalott.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.3, l.109^17.

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  General election campaign speech, Bolton, 2 May.

   The epitaph on the Kennedyadministration became Camelotöa magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers and poets met at the White House and the barbarians beyond the walls were held back.

-White,Theodore H(arold)
  In Search of History.

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