Their lean and flashy songs
Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw,
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.


'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

John Milton Quotes

Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.