[PW] Re: Source for quote

[Simon Cauchi]

> I'm trying to figure out where the phrase "wends its weary way" comes 
> from. (Or possibly "wends his weary way"). I thought it was in 
> Shakespeare, but a search of an online database of his works doesn't 
> show it. I tried searching the phrase in other places online, (and 
> even the OED),  and I find it is fairly often used in movie and book 
> reviews, but not the original source. Anyone know where I can find 
> this?

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way

Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard", line 3.

Simon Cauchi
<simon.cauchi at xtra.co.nz>