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MY SABINE FARM by AUSTIN PHILIPS

First Line: MY SABINE FARM, OR, SOOTH TO SPEAK
Last Line: MY SABINE FARM!
Subject(s): FARM LIFE; AGRICULTURE; FARMERS;

MY Sabine Farm, or, sooth to speak,
My cottage on some Cornish creek,
Without pretence, of aspect plain,
Shall yet a world of wealth contain:
Such wealth as students prize and seek.

Its garden large, in mode antique
Severely ranged, no modern freak
Shall mar. No miscalled friend shall gain
@3My@1 Sabine Farm.

Such is my dream. Meantime I eke
A scanty substance, week by week;
For situate is my domain,
Like lordlier castles are, in Spain ...
Till I acquire, sedate and sleek,
My Sabine Farm!



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