Legends and Lyrics - First Series
SOWING AND REAPING

Adelaide A

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Sow with a generous hand;

Pause not for toil or pain;

Weary not through the heat of summer,

Weary not through the cold spring rain;

But wait till the autumn comes

For the sheaves of golden grain.

Scatter the seed, and fear not,

A table will be spread;

What matter if you are too weary

To eat your hard-earned bread:

Sow, while the earth is broken,

For the hungry must be fed.

Sow;--while the seeds are lying

In the warm earth's bosom deep,

And your warm tears fall upon it -

They will stir in their quiet sleep;

And the green blades rise the quicker,

Perchance, for the tears you weep.

Then sow;--for the hours are fleeting,

And the seed must fall to-day;

And care not what hands shall reap it,

Or if you shall have passed away

Before the waving corn-fields

Shall gladden the sunny day.

Sow; and look onward, upward,

Where the starry light appears -

Where, in spite of the coward's doubting,

Or your own heart's trembling fears,

You shall reap in joy the harvest

You have sown to-day in tears.

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