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The Republic

a little book of homespun verse
Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)

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76

ADVERSITY

A barren field o'ergrown with thorn and weed
It stays for him who waits for help from God:
Only the soul that makes a plough of Need
Shall know what blossoms underneath its sod.
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