Olly Oxen Free

Famous quotes containing the words oxen and/or free:

    “Come; see the oxen kneel,

    “In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
    Our childhood used to know,”
    I should go with him in the gloom,
    Hoping it might be so.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there, and the slaves are free from their masters.
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 3:17-19.