Monday, February 4, 2013

Chimney


Some critics are like chimney sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from the nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing out from the top of the house, as if they had built it.
    ~  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  ~