...more magical - would come all too soon. William Cowper mourned his passing 'From reveries so airy' to the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. Not, I hasten to reassure myself, that it has come to that. Having been allowed (nobody appeared to...

...once the Philippines were reached, and Davis shuddered at the thought. "But I am getting tired of this toil of dropping buckets into empty- wells, and growing old in drawing nothing up, and so also are my associates."38 The problem of McKinley's silence remained. The peace commission...

...of time, it is all he has now, and he offers his all Nothing. Cowper summed it up when he wrote of the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. In another poem Rochester calls Nothing his elder brother because he had 'a being ere the world was...