A Saxon song

Tools with the comely names,
    mattock and scythe and spade,
    couth and bitter as flames,
    clean, and bowed in the blade,
a man and his tools make a man and his trade.

    Breadth of the English shires,
    hummock and kame and mead,
    tang of the reeking byres,
    land of the English breed,
a man and his land make a man and his creed.… Leer más