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  • It fell about the Lammas tide, When the muir-men win their hay, The doughty Douglas bound him to ride Into England, to drive a prey.

    -Ballads
    'The Battle of Otterbourne', opening lines.

  • You will eat, byand by, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

    -Joe originally Joel Ha«  gglund Hill
    Songs of the Workers,'The Preacher and the Slave'.

  • All through that summer at ease we lay, And daily from the turret wall We watched the mowers in the hay And the enemy half a mile away. They seemed no threat to us at all.

    - Edwin Muir
      The Voyage,'The Castle', stanza1.

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