“And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 67
“The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”
II, i, 43–4.
Elegies
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