Folks,
 
My thanks to all who replied to my request for the name of the poet who penned the lines about a shepherd carving his dial.
 
It was William Shakespeare's Henry VI, and Henry was musing on the fate of princes and how it would be far better to be a shepherd. That's a very romantic view of shepherding, and one not borne out by history, but that's another story, for another place.
 
Again, my thanks.

Cheers, John
 
 
 

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