England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Lydia Maria Child
A bird piped suddenly, and was still; and a light breeze sprang up and set the reeds and bulrushes rustling. Kenneth Grahame