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Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life
Connecticut River reeds blown by the "Peasant Bard"
Canning, Josiah D. (1816-1892)
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Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life
The Blacksmith said, when he could see
Better than now, repeatedly
Cast iron he had welded well;
And tho' the thing seem'd strange to tell,
All that was needed, on the whole,
Was
gumption
and
right kind of coal
.
Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life