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THE PLOUGHMAN by KARLE WILSON BAKER

First Line: GOD WILL NOT LET MY FIELD LIE FALLOW
Last Line: HE WILL NOT LET MY FIELD LIE FALLOW.
Subject(s): GOD; PLOWING & PLOWMEN;
God will not let my field lie fallow.

The ploughshare is sharp, the feet of his oxen are heavy;
They hurt.
But I cannot stay God from His ploughing,
I, the lord of the field.
While I stand waiting,
His shoulders loom upon me from the mist,
He has gone past me down the furrow, shouting a song.

(I had said, it shall rest for a season.
The larks had built in the grass ...)

He will not let my field lie fallow.



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