27 MARCH 1959, Page 21

'BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT'

am not sure whether you and your correspon- dents have yet determined where 'blood, toil, tears and sweat' were first found together on the printed page. These lines arc in the section headed 'Quousque Tandem?' in The Song of the Plough, by Maurice Hewlett :

Is it not his yet, this dear soil, Rich with his blood and sweat and tears? Warm with his love, quick with his toil, I do not know when this poem was written but Maurice Hewlett was born in 1861 and died in 1923. —Yours faithfully, LEONARD W. BROCKING1ON Toronto, Canada