“Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.”
Walter Scott book Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward (1823), Ch. 4.
“Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,
The sun has left the lea.
The orange flower perfumes the bower,
The breeze is on the sea.”
— Walter Scott, book Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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