"Siren song" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quite recovered from those divine enchantments which held us bound so long? Memory preserves for me those silvery sounds, and almost I seem to catch their echo. Have we indeed heard the Siren song—are we unscathed? Let me be your Father John, and to these reverend years commit the tale of youthful fervor. So good a Catholic as I, of course, has long ago made confession. But another yet remains for me—namely, that I cannot get that song. ...
— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke |
