Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market).
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn;
The cow’s in the meadow, the sheep in the corn;
Is this the way you mind your sheep,
Under the haycock fast asleep?
Nursery Rhyme.
Edward Fitzgerald, quoting this in “Euphranor,” says the “meadow” is the grass reserved for meadowing, or mowing.
THE FEAST OF ADONIS.