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1879–1944

GO, REAPER

Joseph Campbell

Go, reaper, Speed and reap, Go take the harvest Of the plough:

The wheat is standing Broad and deep, The barley glumes Are golden now.

Labour is hard, But it endures Like love: The land is yours:

Go reap the life It gives you now, O sunbrowned master Of the plough!

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