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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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“Come, Uncle Mose!” at last cried they,
“Let's hear what you have got to say.”
But Uncle Mose, in accents slow,
Said he'd no wond'rous things to show.
“But we know better,” they replied;
“You've been all o'er the country-side
Have been a soldier, and in strife,
And led a most eventful life;

So to hear something now, we mean,
That you have done, or heard, or seen.”