holyday-rejoicing

Updated: June 11, 2025

"Who first invented work and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business, in the green fields, and the town To plough, loom, anvil, spade and oh! most sad, To this dry drudgery of the desk's dead wood?

Charles Lamb - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 : Elia and The Last Essays of Elia