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By The Way

Verses, Fragments, and Notes [by William Allingham]

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Large squares of tawny corn
Stood waiting for the hook;
On fields already shorn
Was ranged the tented stook;
The sky spread gray
But warm, the day
Had a quiet happy look;
And Matron Earth rejoiced in her increase,
At peace.

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Fields are lone,
Swallows flown,
Dead leaves on the pathway strown—