W. Streeter
The Jonathan Papers Elizabeth Woodbridge
Adopting an Abandoned Farm Kate Sanborn
Out-door Studies T.W. Higginson
The Women of America Elizabeth McCracken
The Country Home E.P. Powell
Blessing the Cornfields (in _Hiawatha_) H.W. Longfellow
The Corn Song (in _The Huskers_) J.G. Whittier
Charles Dudley Warner
(in _American Writers of To-day_, pp. 89-103) H.C. Vedder
THE SINGING MAN
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
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He sang above the vineyards of the world.
And after him the vines with woven hands
Clambered and clung, and everywhere unfurled
Triumphing green above the barren lands;
Till high as gardens grow, he climbed, he stood,
Sun-crowned with life and strength, and singing toil,
And looked upon his work; and it was good:
The corn, the wine, the oil.
He sang above the noon. The topmost cleft
That grudged him footing on the mountain scars
He planted and despaired not; till he left
His vines soft breathing to the host of stars.
He wrought, he tilled; and even as he sang,
The creatures of his planting laughed to scorn
The ancient threat of deserts where there sprang
The wine, the oil, the corn!
He sang not for abundance.--Over-lords
Took of his tilth.
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