Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HARVEST: 1, by ANNIE MATHESON


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First Line: Now is the harvest gathered in at last
Last Line: Food for the world beneath the summer sun?
Subject(s): Harvest


NOW is the harvest gathered in at last
To make bread for the people; full and sound
The ripened ears fell on the fruitful ground
Before the sickle; and the reapers passed;
The maidens followed, stooping to make fast
In golden clusters all the corn they found—
Then, balancing aloft the sheaf new-bound,
They on the heaped-up stook their burden cast;
Until at eventide the loaded wain
Bore homeward all the glory of the field,
And men and maids rejoiced o'er work well done.
Did they remember then the buried grain
That in the darkness long lay hid to yield
Food for the world beneath the summer sun?





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