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THE DROUTH AND THE FARMER, by                    
First Line: His body sore and tired from working
Last Line: Seize its brilliance -- fire and all.
Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


His body sore and tired from working
In these expansive hills of dust
Where dawdling is apt to rule
And wisdom to decay and rust;

Stop, farmer, lie beside your plow
And rest upon this dusty earth;
Expunge the pain with fancied thought,
And dream you fled this sultry dearth;

Conclude not from this aimless hour
Such mental pictures as you do,
And seek henceforth the Inner Man
Cheerfully, like a thresher's crew.

How can you live by labor's hand?
What animations have you here
To light these melancholy hills,
These hills so vastly void and sere?

From early geologic times
Life in these hills has been beguiled,
But evolution's law has made
The farmer's life more reconciled.

See Beauty in the plants and trees
Hear it breezing in the sky;
Protect it, feel it, love it, Man,
For your destiny is high.

In silence hold your answer still,
For Beauty hidden underground,
Produces offspring ever here,
Free from pain and troubled sound.

Nature has its hope for man,
It has its high and holy call;
So quickly grasp the star of Beauty,
Seize its brilliance -- fire and all.





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