Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A FULL HARVEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: Seems like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day
Last Line: On'y jes' waste it all on me and you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers


SEEMS like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day
Git down and roll and waller, don't you know,
In that-air stubble, and flop up and crow,
Seein' sich crops! I'll undertake to say
There're no wheat's ever turned out thataway
Afore this season! -- Folks is keerless, though,
And too fergitful -- 'caze we'd ort'o show
More thankfulness! -- Jes' looky hyonder, hey? --
And watch that little reaper wadin' thue
That last old yaller hunk o' harvest-ground --
Jes natchur'ly a-slicin' it in two
Like honeycomb, and gaumin' it around
The field -- like it had nothin' else to do
On'y jes' waste it all on me and you!





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