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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POEM, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON
First Line: My father could not make a poem
Last Line: He made a poem in living green.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers
First Line: My father could not make a poem
Last Line: He made a poem in living green.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers
My father could not make a poem,
But setting his course by yonder pine
Straight and true he plowed a line
Across the field. My father could not
Juggle words -- but with the sheen
Of cotton leafing in the sun
He made a poem in living green.
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