Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THIS LONELY ACRE, by BERT HENDERSON


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THIS LONELY ACRE, by                    
Last Line: And this lone acre shall return to dust.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


This lonely acre given me, O God,
So hard I've tried to till these long, lean years.
Day in, day out, I've worked the barren sod;
Now all I have is loneliness and tears.
I'm not complaining, God, but this bleak field
Has mocked me since the day I first began
To tread its lonely rows, and if the yield
Is over small, remember me a man,
And weak as man is weak. So long I've tried
To wrest from this bleak earth an offering
To honor Thee, but I have been denied
And forced to bear a cross of sorrowing.

But I shall plow until my shares are rust,
And this lone acre shall return to dust.





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