Unmilked

Rising early for the unexpected journey, the farmer left his cows unmilked.

I heard voices calling to me, just discernible above the engine noise; I stopped, and switched off. There were no voices, nothing, but far, far away the plaint of an unmilked cow.

And part of one cow's udder remained unmilked when the robot retracted.

Not Judy Garland, I can hear you moaning, the show business legend whose sorry life has not exactly gone unmilked for cheap pathos elsewhere.