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First Line: Now falls the dusk I sit in peace
Last Line: Athwart the starry world.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers


NOW falls the dusk I sit in peace
Beneath this gateway and behold
The ebbing daylight bring release
From toil by wood and wold.

With stirring at my heart I heed
Above the furrows night has steeped
A ragged sower throwing seed
Of harvests still unreaped.

His tall black silhouette above
The tillage deep strides on. How brave
Must be his faith that time will move
The grain within its grave.

He crosses the unending plain,
Now back, now forth; with open palm
He flings it wide and fills again,
While here I muse in calm;

And his vast shadow from below
Uplifted like a sail unfurled
With mighty rumour seems to sow
Athwart the starry world.





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