“She stood breast-high amid the corn
Clasped by the golden light of morn,
Like the sweetheart of the sun,
Who many a glowing kiss had won.”

—  Thomas Hood, Ruth

Ruth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century

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