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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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“Landlord,” quoth I, “the clock says morn,
Give Uncle Mose an extra horn;
The others have done fairly well,
But we'll allow he bears the bell.”