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" Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! "
Standard Fifth Reader - Page 186
by Epes Sargent - 1867
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...evening care ; Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy strobe ! Let not ambition mock their useful...
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The American Literary Magazine, Volume 1

Timothy Dwight Sprague - 1847 - 408 pages
...but now there is a fresh grave beside him, and we miss another sun-burned brow and stalwart form ; " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!" But now they are laid cold — powerless — silent, and the farm is left to the old mother and her...
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The Boy's Spring Book: Descriptive of the Season, Scenery, Rural Life, and ...

Thomas Miller - 1847 - 140 pages
...Elegy, " which I hope all of you have read, has summed up such a life in a few lines, where he says, " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...; How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ! Nor Grandeur hear...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1847 - 216 pages
...evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return; Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 1 Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely...
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American Literary Magazine, Volumes 1-3

1847 - 1230 pages
...another sun-burned brow and stalwart form ; " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their farrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke, How jocund did they...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!" But now they are laid cold — powerless — silent, and the farm is left to the old mother and her...
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The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure f Nor grandeur hear...
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Reading lessons for the higher classes in classical, middle and diocesan schools

William Balmbro'. Flower - 1848 - 304 pages
...evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke '. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear...
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Exercises in English parsing

John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1848 - 56 pages
...climb his knees, the envied kiss to share ! Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke. How jocund did they...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ! Nor grandeur hear,...
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