He finds it many times pleasanter, And I think no worse of him, To grip in his placid way The crooked plough and the goad Than if he were wrecking a tower. (Iolo Goch)

He finds it many times pleasanter, And I think no worse of him, To grip in his placid way The crooked plough and the goad Than if he were wrecking a tower.

Iolo Goch

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