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The harp and plow
Canning, Josiah D. (1816-1892)
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INVOCATION.
THANKSGIVING EVE.
LEGEND OF THE ISLE.
THE HYMN.
LAYS OF A TWELVEMONTH.
VISION OF POESY.
AN AUTUMNAL LEAF.
TO A WILD ROSE.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE CLARA.
MY BROTHER'S OCEAN-GRAVE.
LINES TO A BULLET FROM THE FIELD OF WATERLOO.
THE FARMER TO HIS PLOUGH.
THE HARVEST MOON.
LINES TO A BEE.
THE THRESHER AND THE RAT.
TO A RED SQUIRREL,
THE TROUT UPON THE SHALLOWS.
POTATOES.
TO AN OLD PAIR OF BREECHES.
TO MY OLD DOG.
A “MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM.”
EPISTLE TO A DISTINGUISHED FRIEND.
EPITAPH.
FAREWELL TO THE VALLEY.
EPITAPH ON A LAZY FELLOW.
THE MOON IN THE WILDERNESS.
THE PRAIRIE COCK.
IMPROMPTU.
THE WAY IT IS DONE.
EPISTLE TO A WESTERN POET.
EPISTLE
IMPROMPTU,
A POOR MAN'S EPITAPH.
IMPROMPTU,
INFERIOR ANIMALS AFFORD INSTRUCTION TO MAN.
SONGS.
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The harp and plow
EPITAPH ON A LAZY FELLOW.
If
keeping Sabbaths saves the soul,
This man's is now in heaven;
One in the week sufficed not him—
He
hallowed
all the seven.
The harp and plow
