1、Usurp the land and dispossess the swain;

2、Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, …

3、He could have begun Lycidas with this, with something like a description of the uncouth swain: "Oh, let me tell you about this uncouth swain."

4、The sun that was just dropped into the west or the uncouth swain?

5、This is the first moment, right now, "thus sang the uncouth swain."

6、But the boat-swain protesting to him, that if he did not, the ship would founder, he consented;

7、At the very end of the poem, the uncouth swain, "rose, and twitch his mantle blue, tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new."