The title character used to argue with Harold Wilson about education, and can't forget Harold's saying that he studied Latin 
The title character used to argue with Harold Wilson about education, and can't forget Harold's saying that he studied Latin like the violin because he liked it. He refuses to be made ashamed to please his brother, which is why Mary lets him in when she comes up from Rowe's to find him huddled against the barn-door fast asleep, even though her husband Warren can't afford to pay him wages for the haying. FTP, identify this poem, first published in 1914, in which Silas expires before he can help ditch the meadow, a work by Robert Frost.
The title character used to argue with Harold Wilson about education, and can't forget Harold's saying that he studied Latin like the violin because he liked it.
The Death of the Hired Man