"You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels."
— Failure

January 1, 1970

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Philip Massinger, The Renegado. Arenas arantes. Plough the sands. Phrase used by Mr. Asquith, Nov. 21, 1894, at Birmingham. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part III, Section 2. Mem. 1. Subs. 2.