Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn,
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
‘A Shape all light, which with one hand did fling
Dew on the earth, as if she were the dawn,
And the invisible rain did ever sing
‘A silver music on the mossy lawn;
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)