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''O farmer, strong farmer!
You can spend at the fair,
But your face you must turn
To your crops and your care;''
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Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Irish poet. A Drover (l. 13-16). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxfo...
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''To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me.''
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Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Irish poet. A Drover (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford...
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''Oh, to have a little house!
To own the hearth and stool and all!
The heaped-up sods upon the fire,
The pile of turf against the wall!''
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Padraic Colum (1881-1972), Irish poet. An Old Woman of the Roads (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Co...
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The Plougher
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Sunset and silence! A man: around him earth savage, earth broken;
Beside him two horses -- a plough!
Earth savage, earth broken, the brutes, the dawn man there in the sunset,
And the Plough that is twin to the Sword, that is founder of cities!
"Brute-tamer, plough-maker, earth-breaker! Can'st hear? There are ages
between us.
Is it praying you are as you stand there alone in the sunset?
"Surely our sky-born gods can be naught to you, earth child and earth
master?
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