Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHAT IT TAKES, by DOROTHY F. RAND


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First Line: Here lies the harvest at your feet
Last Line: Ripe proof of friendly service through the year.
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


Here lies the harvest at your feet
All the past seasons' joys and tears
Piled in one sack together, tares and wheat,
Presented to the threshing-flail of years.
Yours to do with as you will.

Now at your mandate strife may cease.
Each day this new year let us fill
With deeds of good and words of peace,

Young days in which to sow anew the field,
Each month to tend the bud, the bloom, the ear,
At last to help the harvest to the sickle yield,
Ripe proof of friendly service through the year.





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