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 336 GRAPES GRATITUDE GRAFT (See Bribery, Corruption, Politics)

GRAPES

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede. Whetstone—Promos and Cassandra. (1578)

GRASSHOPPER

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Cowley—Anacreontigues. No. 10. Grasshopper. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 336 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev"n the bees lag at the summoning brass. Leigh Hunt—To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. | note = | topic =  | page = 336 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's—he takes the lead In summer luxury—he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. Keats—On the Grasshopper and Cricket.

GRATITUDE If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm! George Canning—Song (on "Billy Pitt