Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REUBEN, by PHOEBE CARY


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First Line: That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not)
Last Line: In henly meditation, bullet free.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Guns; Hens; Agriculture; Farmers


THAT very time I saw, (but thou couldst not),
Walking between the garden and the barn,
Reuben, all armed; a certain aim he took
At a young chicken, standing by a post,
And loosed his bullet smartly from his gun,
As he would kill a hundred thousand hens.
But I might see young Reuben's fiery shot
Lodged in the chaste board of the garden fence,
And the domesticated fowl passed on
In henly meditation, bullet free.





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