a reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall
- a reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall
c 1385 CHAUCER Troilus & Criseyde II. 1387 And reed that boweth down for every blast, Ful lightly, cesse wynd, it wol aryse.
1621 BURTON Anatomy of Melancholy II. iii. Though I liue obscure, yet I liue cleane and honest, and when as the lofty oake is blowne downe, the silly [frail] reed may stand.
1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 3692 Oaks may fall, when Reeds stand the Storm.
1954 R. HAYDN Journal of Edwin Carp 20 Remembering that ‘a reed before the wind lives on—while mighty oaks do fall,’ I attempted to remove the pencil marks with my pocket eraser.
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