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