When the sand doth feed the clay
This old nursery rhyme is called “When the sand doth feed the clay” — enjoy your reading!
“When the sand doth feed the clay,
England woe and well-a-day!
But when the clay doth feed the sand,
Then it is well with Angle-land.”
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