“To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near... You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: / For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Bible
“I am sworn brother, sweet,To grim Necessity, and he and IWill keep a league till death.”
William Shakespeare
“The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try”
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
“Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die.”
Robert Burns
