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Poetry of the Farm and Rural Life

Connecticut River reeds blown by the "Peasant Bard"

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The story ended, and the flip
Went circling round from hand to lip;
The stranger paid the shot, you see,
Because they'd listened patiently.
Then conversation grew more gay;
Most had some funny thing say,
Till by degrees their stories grew
Warped sadly from the truth askew.