Yea, gathering crops whose worth no man might tell,
He staked his life on games of Buy-and-Sell,
And turned each field into a gambler's hell.
(Corn)
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I doubt no doubts: I strive, and shrive my clay,And fight my fight in the patient modern way
For true love and for thee -- ah me!
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The hound had but a churlish wit.
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Not larger than two eyes, they lie
Beneath the many-changing sky
And mirror all of life and time,
-- Serene and dainty pantomime.
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Yea, it forgives me all my sins,
Fits life to love like rhyme to rhyme,
And tunes the task each day begins
By the last trumpet-note of Time.
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So Night takes toll of Wisdom as of Sin.
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