Excerpt from Old and New and Other Poems
HE farmer rested on his couch, His day’s work nearly over, And through the open window came The breath of new mown clover.
Within his toil-worn hand there lies A book with yellow pages; The slanting sunbeams pencil o’er The writings of the sages.
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