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First Line: All we, the young corn, stalwart stand
Last Line: Cloy those he would please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Corn


ALL we, the young corn, stalwart stand
In millions upright side by side,
And countless acres of the land
In orderly close chorus hide,
Shouting: "Gold, of his largess,
And health he discharges
Both far and wide!"

Though all the world were brimmed with gold
And valleys with health had overrun,
Who could command his hand to hold,
Contest the giving of the sun?
Hail him; vigour for growing
He cometh bestowing
On each weak one!

The winds, with showers on their backs,
His servants, lounge by distant seas;
And far-seen summits of their packs
Heave up when shifted for their ease,
Wearied, long there attending
Lest heat of his sending
Cloy those he would please.





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