| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8036 |
| QUOTATION: | Unhappy is the man for evermair
That tills the sand and sawis in the air;
But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
That feidis in his hairt a mad desire
And follows on a woman thro the fire,
Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601), Scottish poet. Fra Bank to Bank, Fra Wood to Wood I Rin (l. 9–14). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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