Give methemanwho will surrender the whole world for a moss or a caterpillar, and impracticable visions for a simple human delight.

-Bruce Frederick Cummings
  Enjoying Life and Other Literary Remains,'Crying for the Moon'.

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Ode to theWestWind', l.29^36.

This is farewell. I shall wait beneath the moss Until the flowers are fragrant In this island country of Japan.

-Tojo, Hideki
  His final statement before execution, 23 Dec. Quoted in R J C ButowTojo and the ComingWar (1961).