Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO


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First Line: Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey
Last Line: Seems to my eyes sublimely grand!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers


Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey
Draws a dim curtain o'er the day,
While in my cottage-porch I lurk
And watch the last lone hour of work.

The fields around are bathed in dew,
And, with emotion filled, I view
An old man clothed in rags, who throws
The seed amid the channeled rows.

His shadowy form is looming now
High o'er the furrows of the plough;
Each motion of his arm betrays
A boundless faith in future days.

He stalks along the ample plain,
Comes, goes, and flings abroad the grain;
Unnoted, through the dreamy haze
With meditative soul I gaze.

At last, the vapours of the night
Dilate to heav'n the old man's height,
Till every gesture of his hand
Seems to my eyes sublimely grand!





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