The husbandman has rent to pay
(Blow, winds, blow)
And seed to purchase every day
(Row, boys, row)
But he who farms the rolling deeps
Though never sowing always reaps;
The ocean's fields are fair and free
There are no rent days on the sea!
After quoting this stout Saxon catch, the Very Reverend William Ralph Dean Inge of St. Paul's goes on to say4 that England, although "less healthy than Scandinavia and Denmark . . . ranks with Holland as a very salubrious country." Prom such a mixture of ballads, statistics and dry humor he...
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